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Madagascar, Mauritius, Socotra, Arabia, Palestine, Persia, Beloo- 

 chistan, India, Ceylon, Kamchatka, Commander Islands, Mon- 

 golia, Manchuria, Corea, Japan, Tsushima, China, Formosa, 

 Hainan, Luzon, Camiguin, Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Pelew Islands, 

 Ladrone Islands, Lukunor, Assam, Andaman Islands, Nicobar 

 Islands, Burma, Pegu, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, 

 Sumatra, Java, Great Cocos Island, Celebes, Siao, Sangir, 

 Tukang-Besi Islands, Buru, Amboyna, Banda Islands, Floris, 

 Timor, Babar, Luang, Letti, Kisser, Aru Islands, Ke Doulan, 

 Batchian, Morty, Mysol, Waigiou, New Guinea, Admiralty 

 Islands, New Ireland, Duke of York Island, Australia, Tas- 

 mania. 



The food of the Common Sandpiper consists of insects, 

 Crustacea, &c. (Gilbert). A bird from Dobbo had small crabs 

 in the stomach (C. Ribbe).* There is a description of its egg in 

 Dresser's 1 Manual of Palaearctic Birds,' p. 792. It nests in 

 Northern and Central Europe and in Northern Asia. 



Terekia cinerea, Guld. (Terek Sandpiper). 

 Scolopax cinerea y Giildenst., Nov. Comm. Petrop. xix. p. 473, 

 tab. 19 (1774). 



Russia (accidental in Finland), Germany, Italy, Africa, 

 Mauritius, India, Ceylon, Andaman Islands, Selangore, China, 

 Siberia, Japan, Palawan, Negros, Bohol, Sumatra, Java, Celebes, 

 Ceram, Great Banda, New Guinea, Australia. 



The name of this bird is derived from the Terek, near the 

 mouth of which, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, it 

 nests. It also nests in the valleys of the Volga and Ural, and 

 north of the Dvina. The egg is described in Dresser's ' Manual 

 of Palaearctic Birds,' p. 795. The food consists of worms, 

 insects, &c. (Dresser). 



Glottis nebularius, Gunner. (Greenshank). 

 Scolopax nebularius, Gunner. Leem. Lapp. Beschr. p. 251 

 (1767). 



Europe, Africa to southern extremity, Socotra, Arabia, India, 

 Laccadive Islands, Ceylon, Cochin China, Siberia, Manchuria, 



* A. B. Meyer in ' Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie,' 1884, 

 p. 295. 



