794 TOTANUS TEREKIA 



1095. WANDERING SANDPIPER. 

 TOTANUS INCANUS. 



Totanus incanus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 658 (1788) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xxiv. p. 453 ; (Tacz.), F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 880 j (Ridgway), p. 168. 



$ ad. (Bering Is.). Differs from T. brevipes in having the neck darker 

 and more boldly striped, and the under parts generally, including the 

 under tail-coverts, but not the middle of the abdomen, boldly and broadly 

 barred with blackish slate ; bill and feet dull greenish ; iris brown. Cul- 

 men 1*7, wing 6*7, tail 3'0, tarsus 1*3 inch. In winter the sides of the 

 neck and of the breast and flanks are dull slate grey, the middle of the breast, 

 sides of abdomen, and under tail-coverts narrowly barred with slaty 

 blackish ; middle of abdomen white. 



Hal. The Pacific coasts of North America from the Galapagos 

 and Lower California to the Aleutian Islands, Norton Sound and 

 Alaska; the Commander Islands, Kamchatka, the Chukchi 

 Peninsula; in winter migrating to the Sandwich Islands and 

 throughout Oceania to the New Hebrides. 



Is said to be numerous on the rocky shores of all the islands 

 of Bering Sea, and when disturbed on their feeding-grounds show 

 but little alarm. Their note is a loud ringing whistle, which 

 they utter when they take flight. This species may be dis- 

 tinguished from T. Irempes in all plumages by having the 

 nasal groove extending to within the terminal third of the 

 upper mandible, whereas in T. Irempes it scarcely extends 

 beyond the half, and the tarsus is usually reticulated behind 

 and not plated. Nothing appears to be known respecting the 

 nidification of this species. 



TEREKIA, Bonap., 1838. 



1096. TEREK SANDPIPER. 

 TEREKIA CINEREA. 



TereJcia cinerea (Giild.), Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. p. 473, tab. 19 (1774), 

 (Naum.), xiii. p. 248, Taf. 386, fig. 3 ; Gould, B. of Austral, vi. 

 pi. 34 ; Dresser, viii. p. 195, pi. 572 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 460 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 474 ; Tacz. F. O. Sib. 0. 

 p. 856 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. p. 258 ; Scolopax terek, Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. ii. p. 724 (1790) ; (Gould), B. of E. iv. pi. 307 ; (See- 

 bohm), B. Jap. Emp. p. 326. 



Morodunka, Russ. 



