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GRALLATORES. 



Family SCOLOPACIB^. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus LiMOSA. f Brisson.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak very long, more or less recurved, 

 soft and flexible in its entire length, depressed, flattened near 

 the point; both mandibles furrowed their whole length. JSTostrils 

 lateral, placed in the lateral groove, narrow and longitudinal. 

 Legs long and slender, and bare for a considerable space 

 above the knee; three toes in front and one behind; the 

 middle toe united to the external, and sometimes to the in- 

 ternal toe, by a membrane as far as the first articulation; the 

 posterior articulated to the tarsus. Wings medium size, the 

 first primary the longest. 



TEREK GODWIT. 



Limosa tereh. 



Lim.osa terelc, Temminck, 1840. 



" recurvirostra, Pallas. Schlegel, 1844. 



Scolopax cinerea, Guldenstadt, (after Gmelin,) 



1788. 



" " Keyseeling et Blasius, 1840. 



" terelc, Latham, 1790. 



Limictila terek, Vieillot. 



" Indiana, Lesson, 1831. 



Terelcia java?iica, Bonaparte, 1838. 



^enus cinereus, Kaup. Bonapaete, 1850. 



Barge Terelc, Of the Feench. 



Sabelschnablige Pfuldsclmepfe, Oe the Germans. 



