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dress, and showed no difference between the sexes (deter- 

 mined by dissection) . I took down the following details from 

 the fresh male : — 



Terekia cinerea, d . Length 95 inches. Wing 5*15, reach- 

 ing to end of tail ; first quill longest, *3 longer than tip of 

 tertiaries. Tail 22, of twelve slightly graduated feathers, 

 outer *25 shorter than centrals. Feet, stretched backwards, 

 slightly exceeding tail, say by '2. Bare part of tibia '75 ; 

 tarse 1*15 j middle toe '85, its claw '2. Legs orange clay- 

 colour. Bill recurved, from forehead to tip 1*9, from gape 

 2 , 05 ; yellowish olive-brown at base and rictus, blackish brown 

 on the rest. 



Dissection. Intestine thick, 11 inches long; csecoid appen- 

 dage 5 inches from anus, '5 long, and curled inwards at tip ; 

 caeca "75 from anus, 1*6 long. Stomach an irregular oval 1 

 long by "6 broad. Epithelium firmly fixed, containing dry 

 mud and bits of small black beetles. 



The two Curlew Stints (Tringa subarcuata) were both males 

 and only partially moulted. The Australian Stints were all 

 males in summer plumage. 



The two Mongolian Plovers, JEgialites mongolus (Pall.), 

 were also both males : one was just beginning to acquire the 

 summer dress ; the other retained its winter peculiarities. 



Of the two Pigmy Spoonbills, one is in winter plumage, 

 the other commencing to blush into its summer redness. Both 

 proved males. I took the following note from them while 

 fresh : — 



Eurynorhynchus pygmceus, 6. Length 6j inches. "Wing 

 3'85, not exceeding tail ; first quill little longer than the 

 second, exceeding the tertiaries by '2. Tail 1*75 • outer 

 rectrix '2 longer than second and third, *1 longer than fourth 

 and fifth, '15 shorter than centrals; thus is the tail doubly 

 forked. Bare part of tibia *55 ; tarse *85; middle toe '71, 

 its claw -15; all olive-black. Bill from forehead *90, also 

 olive-black. 



Dissection. Bones of the head soft and easily broken. Tra- 

 chea simple. Stomach circular, flattish at sides, about | inch 

 broad. Epithelium thick and loose, containing fragments of 



