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TEREKIA CINEEEA. 



(TEREK SANDPIPER.) 



Scolopax cinerea, Giildenst. N. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. xix. p. 473, tab. xix. (1774, 



descr. orig.). 

 Terek Snipe, Lath. Gen. Syn. v. p. 155 (1785). 

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



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

 Scolopax sumatrana, Kafil. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 327 (1822, descr. orig.). 

 Numenius cinereus, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1157 (1823, descr. orig.). 

 Limicola terek, Vieill. Faun. Franc, p. 306 (1825). 

 Fedoa terekensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. part 1, p. 83 (1824). 

 Xenus cinereus, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 115 (1829). 

 Limosa indiana, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 554 (1831). 

 Limosa recurvirostra, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 181 (1831). 

 Terekia javanica, Bonap. Comp. List of B. of Eur. and N. Amer. p. 57 (1838). 

 Limosa terek, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 426 (1840). 

 Terekia cinerea, Bonap. Cat. Coll. Parzud. p. 15 (1856). 



Figures notabiles. 



Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 307 (1837); id. B. of Austr. vi. pi. 34 (1848); Naum. Vogel 

 Deutschl. xiii. Taf. 386 (1860); Vian, Bev. et Mag. de Zool. xiv. pi. 15 (1862); Bree, 

 B. ofEur.iii.pl. (1863). 



J cestiv. suprst griseus, scapis plumarum linea angusta nigra indicatis : uropygio dorso concolori : tectricibus 

 supracaudalibus fulvo versus apicem marginatis : tectricibus alarum minimis nigris, majoribus dorso 

 concoloribus : scapularibus dorsalibus nigricantibus, lmeam longam nigram formantibus : primariis 

 brunneis, interioribus pallidioribus, harum et secundariarum omnium apicibus conspicue albis, intimis 

 dorsalibus griseis dorso concoloribus exceptis : cauda albido-grisescente, nigricante indistinctissime 

 marrnorata, rectricibus duabus mediis fulvo lavatis : loris genisque albidis, griseo paullulum notatis : 

 regione auriculari cinereo : subtus albus, pectore superiore grisescente : subcaudalibus et subalaribus 

 cum pennis axillaribus albis : rostro recurvirostro nigricante, versus basin mandibulae viridescente : 

 pedibus pallide flavicanti-viridibus : iride nigricanti-cineresi. 



c? Mem. similis praecedenti, sed scapularibus et tectricibus alarum haud nigricantibus, dorso reliquo concoloribus. 



Summer plumage. Above grey, the shafts of the feathers of the middle of the back distinctly marked in the 

 centre with black, the innermost scapulars nearest the back black, forming a distinct black line along 

 each side of the centre of the back ; least wing-coverts black, the median and greater coverts grey, like 

 the back, with distinct markings in the centre of the feathers, a few of the latter tipped with white; 

 quills blackish with white shafts, somewhat washed with grey, the inner primaries and all the secondaries 

 tipped conspicuously with white, those nearest the back excepted, these being coloured like the back ; 



