CLASSIFIED NOTES 525 



TEREK-SANDPIPER [Terekia cintrea (Gttldenstadt). German, gra ue Uferscknepfe; Italian, 

 fi rechia]. 



1. Description. Readily recognised by its long bill, which is upturned towards the 

 extremity, and by the black bands down each side of the back, this latter character being 

 present in young examples in their first plumage. The sexes are alike, excepting that 

 the female is less brightly coloured. Total length 9 inches [228 mm.]. General colour of the 

 upper surface ash-grey, heavily streaked on the head and neck with black and more broadly 

 so on the mantle ; lesser wing-coverts and scapulars black, the latter forming a well-marked 

 double band down the back ; rump and upper tail-coverts barred and mottled with brown ; 

 under surface of the body white; throat and upper chest thinly streaked with blackish. 

 [AV. p. p. and T. \v. ] 



2. Distribution. In Europe this species only breeds in Northern Russia, and recently 

 has extended its range towards the south-west in Central Russia. It has been found nesting 

 on islands in the Gulf of Bothnia (Finland), the valley of the Onega, the Dwina delta, and 

 lat. 68 on the Petschora, while southward its breeding range extends to Orenburg (lat. 51J), the 

 Ufa, Kazan, Samara, Simbirsk, Penza, Riazan, and probably also the Novgorod government. 

 In Asia it ranges north to 07 30' N. on the Ob, about 70 on the Yenisei, and 68J on the 

 Kolyma, but apparently not farther east. Southward it breeds to about lat. 54 in the Minusinsk 

 district, and 51 in the Alei basin. On migration it passes through Japan, Asia, and the shores 

 of the Caspian and Black Seas to winter in the Malay Archipelago, Australia, and Tasmania, 

 the shores of Southern Asia, North-eastern Africa, and in small numbers in Africa south to 

 Damaraland and Natal. It has also been recorded from Bering Island, Madagascar, and 

 Mauritius, and in Europe casually west to Germany (three), France, Italy (eleven), Switzer- 

 land, and four in England (Kent) in 1912. [F. c. R. J.] 



REDBREASTED - SANDPIPER [Macrorhdmphus grlseus (Gmelin). Redbreasted - snipe, 

 Dowitcher]. 



1. Description. Recalls the knot, but differs therefrom in having the bill long, 2 in. 

 [50-80 mm.], straight, equal to or exceeding the tail in length, and expanded at the tip, while 

 the middle and inner toes lack a connecting web. Length 10 in. [254 mm.]. The adult 

 in summer plumage has the general colour of the upper parts black, irregularly barred 

 and margined with rich buff; lower back and rump white, the latter spotted and barred 

 with dull black ; upper tail-coverts and tail white, regularly barred with dull black ; primary 

 feathers uniform brown ; secondaries brown, widely margined on their outer webs with white, 

 inner webs streaked and marbled with white, scapulars like the back ; under surface of body 

 light cinnamon rufous, dotted with black, principally on the sides of the breast and flanks ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, barred with dusky black ; iris reddish hazel ; bill dark 

 olive; feet light yellowish olive. The adult in winter plumage differs in having the upper 

 parts uniform ash-grey with a few blackish shaft-streaks, and in having the under surface of 

 the body white, spotted and barred on the lower throat, sides of the neck, sides of the body, 

 and under tail-coverts with blackish brown, [w. p. p. and T. w.] 



2. Distribution. The breeding-grounds of this species are still unknown, but are believed 

 to be to the north or north-west of Hudson Bay. On migration it passes along the Atlantic 

 coast of North America, occasionally through Illinois, Indiana, and Ontario, and winters from 

 Florida and the West Indies south to Northern Brazil. Accidental in Greenland, the 

 Bermudas, France, and about twenty-three records from the British Isles. Replaced by a 

 closely allied race in western North America, which breeds in Alaska, and apparently also in 

 North Alberta. [F. c. R. j.] 



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