Genus TEREKIA. 



Bill long, slender, recurved, somewhat widened at the base ; both mandibles grooved, as in 

 Limosa ; the tip flattened and bent down ; nostrils as in the last genus. Wings long, reaching 

 to the end of the tail, the 1st quill the longest. Tail of 12 feathers, short, cuneate. Legs 

 rather short ; tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, covered in front with narrow transverse 

 scales ; anterior toes joined at the base by a web, most developed between the outer and middle 

 one, and which extends along the sides in a narrow membrane ; claws short and wide. 



Summer plumage differing slightly from the winter. 



TEREKIA CINEREA. 



(THE TEREK SANDPIPER.) 



Scolopax cinerea, Giild. N. Coram. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. xix. p. 473, tab. xix. (1774). 



Scolopax terek, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 724 (1790). 



Totanus javanicus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 193 (1822, descr. orig.). 



Scolopax sumatrana, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 327 (1822). 



Numenius cinereus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Moth, hi. p. 1107 (1823, descr. orig.). 



Limosa cinerea (Giild.), Von Middendorff, Sibir. Reise, ii. p. 216 (1853); Von Heuglin, 

 Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1157 (1874). 



Limosa terek (Lath.), Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 307 (1857). 



Terekia cinerea (Giild.), Gray, Gen. B. p. 88 (1846); Gould, B. of Austral, vi. pi. 34 (1848) 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 267 (1849); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 682 (1864) 

 Gould, Handb. B. of Austral, ii. p. 261 (1865) ; Blanford, Zool. Abyssin. p. 433 (1870) 

 Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 406; Layard, B. of S. Afr. no. 609 (1867); Sharpe & 

 Dresser, B. Eur. pt. 4 (1871); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 474 (first record from 

 Ceylon); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 237 ; id. ibid. 1874, p. 296; Salvadori, Ucc. di 

 Borneo, p. 330 (1874); Butler & Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 16; Ball, t. c. p. 236; 

 Armstrong, t. c. p. 341 ; Blanford, Zool. Persia, p. 283 (1876); Sclater & Taylor, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 64 ; Seebohrn & Harvie Brown, t, c. p. 292 ; Butler, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 223 ; 

 Hume, ibid. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 460 ; id. ibid. vii. p. 480 ; id. 1879 (List B. Malay 

 Penin.), p. 70, et p. 112 (List B. of Ind.) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 152. 



Xenus cinereus, Giild., Alston & Harvie Brown, Ibis, 1873, p. 68. 



Terek Avoset, Penn. Arctic Zool. ; Terek Snipe, Lath. ; Terek Godivit, Gould ; Avocet 

 Sandpiper of some authors ; Terek-Sehnepfe, German ; Kuleek, Russian. Kaukalc, 

 Amurland (Schrenck) ; Kooning kaki, Sumatra ; Bedaran, Chomeyan, Java (Horsf.). 



Adult ft males (December to Feb., Kurrachee). Wing 5 - l to 5-18 inches ; tail 2-3 to 2-4 ; tarsus 1-08 to 1-1 ; middle 

 toe 0-85 to 0-87 ; bill at front 1-85 to 1-95, to jipe 1-98 to 2-01. 



The above measurements are from specimens in my own collection. A male recorded from Sambalpur by Mr. Ball is 

 measured by him as follows : — wing 4-9 inches ; tail 2-2 ; tarsus 1-1 ; bill at front 2-2. Mr. Hume notes the 

 dimensions of a series of females from Kurrachee and the Mekran coast as : — length 1O0 to 10'5 inches ; wing 5-1 



