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TEREK GODWIT. 
This curious species is probably referable to a 
distinct genus, as its beak materially differs in form 
from that of the true Godwits ; it is nearly two 
inches in length, and bends upwards from the base, 
and slightly downwards at the tip ; its colour is 
black : the upper parts of the plumage are cinereous, 
with the middle of each feather brown, forming stripes 
of the latter colour down the head, neck, and back : 
the rump is also marked with brown, but in a trans- 
verse direction: the wings are ash-coloured, barred 
with white : the quills are brown ; the first with a 
white shaft, the second ash-coloured ; the secondaries 
are tipped with white : the under parts of the body 
are white, with the throat and breast clouded with 
ash-colour : the tail-feathers are greyish-ash, all but 
the two middle ones, varied with whitish : legs red- 
dish-brown : irides brown. 
Found during the summer in the vicinity of the 
Caspian Sea, breeding about the mouth of the river 
Terek : it frequents the marshes and salt lakes in 
flocks, and feeds on insects, worms, &c. 
