G-enus TEREKIA. 
Bill long, slender, recurved, somewhat widened at the base ; both mandibles grooved, as in 
Limosa ; the tip flattened and bent down; nostrils as in the last genus. Wings long, reaching 
to the end of the tail, the 1st quill the longest. Tail of 12 feathers, short, cuneate. Legs 
rather short ; tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, covered in front with narrow transverse 
scales ; anterior toes joined at the base by a web, most developed between the outer and middle 
one, and which extends along the sides in a narrow membrane ; claws short and wide. 
Summer plumage differing slightly from the winter. 
TEEEKIA CINEEEA. 
(THE TEREK SANDPIPER.) 
Scolopax cinerea , Giild. N. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. xix. p. 473, tab. xix. (1774). 
Scolopax terek , Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 724 (1790). 
Totanus jmamcus , Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 193 (1822, descr. orig.). 
Scolopax sumatrana. Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 327 (1822). 
Numenius cinereus , Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1157 (1823, descr. orig.). 
Limosa cinerea (Giild ), Von Middendorff, Sibir. Reise, ii. p. 216 (1853); Yon Heuglin, 
Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1157 (1874). 
Limosa terek (Lath.), Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 307 (1857). 
TereUa cinerea (Giild.), Gray, Gen. B. p. 88 (1846) ; Gould, B. of Austral, vi. pi. 34 (1848) ; 
Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 267 (1849); Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 682 (1864); 
Gould, Iiandb. B. of Austral, ii. p. 261 (1865) ; Blanford, Zool. Abyssin. p. 433 (1870) ; 
Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 406; Layard, B. of S. Afr. no. 609 (1867); Sharpe & 
Dresser, B. Eur. pt. 4 (1871); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 474 (first record from 
Ceylon) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 237 ; id. ibid. 1874, p. 296 ; Salvadori, Ucc. di 
Borneo, p. 330 (1874); Butler & Hume, Str. Ecath. 1876, p. 16; Ball, t. c. p. 236; 
Armstrong, t. c. p. 341 ; Blanford, Zool. Persia, p. 283 (1876); Sclater & Taylor, Ibis, 
1876, p. 64 ; Seebohm & Harvie Brown, t. c. p. 292 ; Butler, Str. Feath. 1877, p. 223 ; 
Hume, ibid. 1878 (B. of Tenass.), p. 460 ; id. ibid. vii. p. 480 ; id. 1879 (List B. Malay 
Penin.), p. 70, et p. 112 (List B. of Ind.) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 152. 
Xenus cinereus , Giild., Alston & Ilarvie Brown, Ibis, 1873, p. 68. 
Terek Avoset, Penn. Arctic Zool. ; Terek Snipe, Lath. ; Terek Godwit, Gould ; Avocet 
Sandpiper of some authors ; Terek-Sclmepfe, German ; Kuleek, Russian. Kaukale, 
Amurland (Schrenck) ; Kooning kaki, Sumatra ; Bedaran, Choweyan, Java (Horsf.). 
Adult females (December to Eeb., Kurrachee). Wing 5T to 5T8 inches ; tail 2-3 to 2-4; tarsus 1-08 to IT ; middle 
toe 085 to 087 ; bill at front T85 to 1-95, to gape 1-98 to 2-01. 
The above measurements are from specimens in my own collection. A male recorded from Sambalpur by Mr. Ball is 
measured by him as follows : — wing 4-9 inches ; tail 2-2 ; tarsus IT ; bill at front 2-2. Mr. Hume notes the 
dimensions of a series of females from Kurrachee and the Mekran coast as : — length 10-0 to 10-5 inches ; wing 5T 
