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back toe ; which is sometimes deficient.* We have seen the Wattled 

 Sandpiper in drawings from India; in some the bill is wholly black; 

 tail white, except a black bar near the end. It was called Jurpul- 

 lak, or Zerd Pullak ; and one, a trifling Variety, was named Cherd 

 Pulluk Teheri. This, or a slight Variety, is found in Java, but 

 larger, and called Terek. 



72.— GOA SANDPIPER. 



Tringa Goensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 727. Gm. Lin. i. 706. 

 Vanneau arme des Indes, Buf. viii. 64. PI. enl. 807. 

 Goa Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 165. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill dusky; head and neck black ; 

 before the eye, and round it, carunculated and red ; from the back 

 part of the eye a stripe of white, passing down on each side of the 

 neck, and communicating with the breast, which, as well as the 

 rest of the under parts, is white ; the back, and wing coverts rufous 

 brown, the greater white ; quills black ; on the fore part of the wing, 

 near the joint, a short, sharp spur; the base of the tail, for one-third, 

 is white, the middle black, and the end brown ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits India, found in various parts of the Coromandel Coast, 

 and said to be very frequent about Goa ; is known by the name of 

 Teteri or Turthury, and in some drawings Loll Teteri ; and again in 

 the Province of Oude, Tithary; but these, perhaps, are written 

 differently, according to the idea each person forms of the pronun- 

 ciation of the words by the natives. 



The egg is one inch and three quarters long, marked much like that 

 of the Wattled Plover, dusky white, with numerous, darker marks; 

 some of them much larger than in the egg of the last named. This 

 seems greatly allied to, and might be placed among the Plovers. 

 Some specimens having only a hind claw, without a toe. 



* We have seen the Golden Plover, with a complete back toe, though in general without 

 even the rudiment of it. 



