Contributions to the Ornithology/ of India, Sf^. 237 



and one or two rufons or chesnut feathers with black bars have 

 began to shew themselves on the breast. 



The summer plumag-e is thus described by Temminck — 

 Male. — " Upper part of the head and occiput, blackish brown, 

 mixed with streaks of reddish yellow ; a band of the latter colour 

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

 lowish red; all the lower part of the body, including- the under 

 tail coverts, pale yellowish red ; upper part of the back and scapu- 

 lars, blackish brown, marbled with reddish yellow and whitish 

 gvey ; lower part of the back and rump, white, marked with 

 longitudinal yellowish red spots ; the tail marked with browu 

 and white bars, those of the latter tint irregularly distributed, 

 and disposed more or less longitudinally j 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 

 reddish; the abdominal part, white; the lower tail coverts, 

 reddish white, with light brown bars,''^ 



876.— Terekia cinerea, (aiiUenst. 



This species was very abundant in Kurrachee Harbour and I 

 met with it once or twice on the Mekran Coast. At a little dis- 

 tance it was very like the lesser redshanks. Most of our speci- 

 mens, killed early in February, were still in winter plumage, a 

 few of them exhibited black streaks on the scapulars indicative 

 of the coming summer plumage. By some oversight, I measured 

 none of the males. Females, measured in the flesh, varied as 

 follows — length, 10 to 10-5 ; expanse, 17 to 17-25 ; tail from 

 vent, -l to 2-0 ; wing, 5-1 to 5*2 ; bill at front, 1-75 to 2 ; tarsus, 

 l-ltol"15; legs and feet, pale reddish orange; bill, orange at 

 base, blackish at tip. 



877 — Numenius lineatus, Ouv. Begn. An, 2nd 



Ed. I., p. 52. Note 2. (? N. Major. Fauna Japo7iica. 

 Aves, PL 66.) 



Although I follow Mr. Blyth (and Prof. Schlegel ?) in con- 

 sidering the Indian curlew as possibly deserving of specific 

 separation, I am yet by no means certain of the fact. Mr. Blyth 

 remarks. Ibis 1867 p. 158, " British curlews are far more uniform 

 in size, and have the breast and flanks much more conspicuously 



