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Falcinelhi,s=a. little sickle (referring to tlie beak). 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Eare Visitor. It has 

 occurred about sixteen times on the east and south coasts 

 of Great Britain : in Fifeshire, Yorkshire, Norfolt, Kent, and 

 Sussex ; also in Ireland once, at Belfast Lough : mostly 

 between August and October, but also in April and May. 



General Distribuiion.^The Broad-billed Sandpiper breeds 

 in Europe and no doubt also in Siberia, ranging from 

 Scandinavia and north Russia southwards to Kazan and 

 Turgai and eastwards to the Sea of Okhotsk. On migration 

 and in winter it visits the coasts and inland waters of the 

 greater part of Europe, except apparently the Spanish 

 Peninsula, and ranges south to the Mediterranean, Red, 

 Black, and Caspian seas ; also eastwards to India, China, 

 Japan, the Philippines, and the Malay Archipelago to the 

 Moluccas. Birds from eastern Siberia have been recognised 

 as a distinct race, L. /. sihirica. 



Genus TEREKIA Bonaparte, Geogr. & Comp. List Birds 

 Eur. & N. Amer. 1838, p. 52. 



Type : T. cinerea (Giildenst.). 



Terekia, from the Terek river, which flows into the Caspian aea, at the mouth 

 of which this Sandpiper was first met with by Giildenstadt. 



Terekia cinerea. Terek Sakdpipek. 



Scolopax cinerea Guldenstadt, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. 

 1775, p. 473 : Terek River, S.E. Russia. 



Terekia cinerea (Giildenst.); Sharpe, Gat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 

 1896, p. 474- ; Parhin, ' British Birds,' vi. 1912, p. 74. 



Cinerea =ash-coloiiTed. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor : 

 four specimens were obtained on Romney Marsh, Kent, in 

 May 1912. 



General Distribution. — The Terek Sandpiper breeds in 

 north-eastern Europe and north Siberia from the valley of 



