NUMENINJB. 351 



Terekia cinerea, Gm. 



876. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 682 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Yol. IV, p. 16 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of 

 Sind, p. 246. 



THE AVOCET SAND-PIPEK. 



Length, 8"9 ; expanse, 16'25 ; wing, 5 ; tail, 2; tarsus, 1-1 ; bill 

 at front, 1*8. 



Bill orange-yellow at the base, dusky at tip ; irides brown ; legs 

 pale orange. 



Upper plumage bluish-ashy, the stems of the feathers dark, 

 with some broadish dark streaks ; forehead and cheeks white, 

 with ashy striae ; shoulder of wing, edge of wing, and quills 

 blackish-brown, the first primary with a white stem ; secondaries 

 tipped with white ; throat whitish ; neck in front and top of 

 breast pale-ashy, with streaks of reddish-brown ; lower breast, 

 belly, and under tail-coverts white. 



The Avocet Sand-piper is a not uncommon cold weather visitant 

 to Sind, Kutch, and Northern Guzerat. It does not occur in the 

 Deccan. 



SUB-FAMILY, Numeninae. 



Bill very long, curved downwards. 



GENUS, Numenius, Lin. 



Bill very long, moderately slender, curved, almost round ; upper 

 mandible channelled, the tip hard, obtuse, slightly produced 

 beyond the lower ; nostrils basal, linear, apert ; wings moderately 

 long, the first quill longest ; tail short, even, or slightly rounded ; 

 tarsus moderately long, scutate inferiorly; anterior toes short, 

 basally connected by web, and bordered by a narrow membrane ; 

 hind-toe short, with the nail rudimentary. 



Numenius lineatus, Gab. 



877. N. arquata, Lin. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 683 ; 

 Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 16 ; Deccan, Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 429; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of 

 Sind, p. 247 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 134. 



THE CUKLEW. 



Length, 21 to 26 ; expanse, 34 to 38 ; wing, 11*0 to 12'25 ; tail, 

 4-5 ; tarsus, 3 25 ; bill at front, 4'0 to 6'25. 



Bill dusky-brown, beneath fleshy ; irides dark-brown ; legs and 

 feet pale bluish-grey. 



Head, neck, and breast, pale ashy, tinged with rufous, the shafts 

 and middle of the feathers dusky ; upper back and scapulars 

 blackish-brown, the feathers broadly edged with rufous-brown ; 

 lower back white, with dusky spots ; tail yellowish-white, with 

 transverse brown bars ; abdomen white, with dusky spots. 



