624 SCOLOPACID^E. 



about | inch; mid-toe and claw ri2 ; tail from vent 2-62 ; bill at front 1-62 ; 

 upper mandible slightly the longer and bent over at the tip ; wing 7*12, ist 

 quill longest; irides dark brown. 



Length. About 11-5 inches (mounted specimen); legs and feet greenish 

 yellow. This is either a new species or an aberrant form of Totanus. It is 

 quite unlike any of the other species, except Totanus Hauglitoni, with the 

 figure of which in the April number of the Ibis, 1883, pi. iv., it agrees in a few 

 characters. The markings of the breast and upper parts agree very well, but 

 the lower back, rump and upper tail coverts are not white as in that species or 

 form. These are dusky with whitish edges and tips. Again in the webbing 

 of the toes, this Kurrachee specimen differs from T. Haughtoni'm having only 

 one-eighth inch of a web, the fringe however is quite apparent. The 

 palatal recurved horny papillae referred to by Mr. Hume are also present. 



In measurements however there is a wide difference. Mr. Hume gives : 

 Length. Expanse. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill at gape. Bill at front. 



Male 13-2 22-25 7'3 3'O 1*85 2-5 2- I 



Female ...12-9 22' 3 7*0 3-0 1-65 2'2 1-92 



The Kurrachee specimen is a female and measures 



ii'S 7-12 2*6 2-37 175 1-62 



These measurements, it will be seen, will not fit any of the other species of 

 the genus. 



Hal. Kurrachee (Sind) in the harbour during winter. The single speci- 

 men was obtained in November 1882. 



Gen. Terekia. Bonap. 



Bill recurved, long, slender ; tarsi short ; toes narrowly webbed ; hind toe 

 less than half the size of the outer one. 



1309. Terekia Cinerea, Guldens!., N. Comm. Soc.Imp. Petrop. xix. 

 p. 473, t. xix ; Jerd., B. 2nd. iii. p. 682, No. 876; Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 

 195, pi. ; Hume, Str. F, i. p. 237 ; ii. p. 296; Armstrong, Sir. F. iv. p. 341 ; 

 Hume andDav.y Str. F. vi. p. 460; Legge, B. Ceylon p. 836; Murray, Vert. 

 ZooL, Sind, p. 246. The TEREK SAND-PIPER or PIGMY CURLEW. 



Forehead, chin, throat, sides of the head and neck in front greyish white 

 with ashy striae ; back, scapulars, tertials, rump and upper tail coverts ashy 

 brown, the feathers with dark shafts; feathers of the median wing coverts 

 narrowly tipped with white ; primaries dark brown, the ist quill with a white 

 shaft ; secondaries dusky, broadly terminated with white ; shoulder and edge 

 of the wing dark brown ; tail concolorous with the back, the tips bordered 

 with white ; sides of the breast ashy grey, the feathers mesially darker ; lower 

 breast, abdomen, vent and under tail coverts white. In an advanced stage 

 of plumage March the entire upper parts are darker, the scapulars are 



