TEBEK 8ANDPIPEE. 19 



GRALLATOEES. 

 Family SCOLOPACIDJE. f Bonaparte.) 

 Genus Terekia. (Bonaparte.) 



Generic Cha^-aders. — Bill very long, slender, recurved; tarsus rather short; 

 feet with the toes anteriorly united by a web, narrow and short between 

 the inner and middle toes. 



TEREK SANDPIPER. 



Terekia cinerea. 



Scolopax cinerea, Guldenstadt; N.C. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 



xix, p. 473, (1774.) 

 " terek, Latham; Gen. Syn. v, p. 155, (1785.) 



" sumatrana, Raffles; Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii, p. 327, 



(1822.) 

 Liinosa terek, Temminck ; Man. d'Orn. iv, p. 426, (1820.) 



Limicola terek, Vieillot ; Faun. Franc, p. 306, (1825.) 



Xeniis cinereus, Kaup; Nat. Syst., p. 115, (1829.) 



Limosa recurvirostra, Pallas; Zoogr. ii, p. 181, (1831.) 



Limicola indiana, Lesson; Trait. d'Orn., p. 554, (1831.) 



Terekia javanica, Bonaparte; Comp. List., p. 57, (1838.) 



Scolopax cinerea, Keyserling et Blasius; Wirbelth., (1840.) 



Barge terek. Of the French. 



Sdbelschndblige Pfuhlschnepfe, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Bill much recurved ; tarsus short ; middle toe slightly 

 shorter than the tarsus ; upper portions of the plumage hair brown, streaked 

 in the breeding season with black; under parts white; a white band across 

 the wing, the under parts of which are pure white. Length eight and a 

 half to nine inches. 



The Terek Sandpiper breeds regularly in northern Europe, and is 

 common in north Russia, wandering on to the borders of the Caspian 



