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with dark shafts tipped white, and mottled with white on the 

 inner webs of the exterior ones, in some with traces of darker 

 transverse bars ; the primaries and their greater-coverts black ; 

 the shafts of the first two or three white, subsequent ones brown- 

 ish-white ; scapulars and tertiaries pale brown, darker shafted, 

 margined paler, and many of them more or less tinged with ashy ; 

 the lesser and median-coverts like the scapulars, but margined 

 whitish ; secondaries brown, paler on their inner webs, and 

 margined on both webs and on the tips with white, as indeed 

 are also, so far as the tips are concerned, the later primaries, 

 though less conspicuously so ; the greater secondary-coverts are 

 more ashy-brown, narrowly margined with white. In one speci- 

 men, which appears to be further advanced, the lateral tail- 

 feathers are distinctly barred brown and white ; the cuneiform 

 barrings on the rump and upper tail-coverts are -more marked ; 

 the axillaiies are all strongly barred ; the feathers of the sides 

 and flanks, and also the lower tail-coverts, exhibit numerous 

 arrow-head bars ; and one or two rufous or chesnut feathers 

 with black bars have begun to show themselves on the breast. 



The summer plumage is thus described by Temminck : 



Male. Upper parts of the head and occiput blackish- brown, 

 mixed with streaks of reddish-yellow ; a band of the latter color 

 over the eyes ; lores blackish-brown ; cheeks and throat of a 

 yellowish-red ; all the lower parts of the body, including the under 

 tail-coverts, pale ) T ello wish-red ; upper part of the back and 

 scapulars blackish-brown, marbled with reddish-yellow and 

 whitish-grey ; lower part of the back and rump white, marked 

 with longitudinal yellowish-red spots ; the tail marked with brown 

 and white bars, those of the latter tint irregularly distributed 

 and disposed more or less longitudinally ; quills black from their 

 tip, the remaining part towards the bases blackish-brown, with 

 their inner webs whitish-grey, marbled with pale brown ; the 

 secondaries grey, with the shafts and margins white. 



Female. The head and lores, as in the male ; the throat white, 

 marked with reddish-grey ; cheeks and neck very light reddish, 

 with numerous brown streaks, which become broader, and form 

 small transverse brown and white bars on the sides of the breast ; 

 the latter and the belly marbled with white and very pale red- 

 dish ; the abdominal part white ; the lower tail-coverts reddish- 

 white with light brown bars. Hume, Stray Feathers, Vol. I, p. 

 236. 



The Bar-tailed Godwit is a not uncommon cold weather visitant 

 to Kurrachee Harbour, and also occurs further east at the mouths 

 of the Indus. 



GENUS, Terekia, Bona. 



Bill very long, slender, recurved ; tarsus rather short ; feet with 

 the front toes joined by a web, narrow and short between the 

 inner and mid-toes, of small size. 



