Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 196. 
Family 8G0L0PACIDM 
XENUS CINEREUS JAVANICUS. 
EASTERN TEREK SANDPIPER. 
(Plate 154.)* 
Totantjs JAVANICUS Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lend.), Vol. XIII., p. 193, 1821 ; Java. 
Totanus javanicus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p. 193, 1821. 
Scolopax sumatrana Raffles, ib., p. 327 (Sumatra). 
Limosa recurvirostra Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol. II., p. 181, 1827 (Siberia). 
Limicola Indiana Lesson, Traite d’Orn., p. 554, 1831 (India and Tasmania). 
Terekia javanica Bonaparte, Comp. List Birds Europe and N. Amer., p. 52, 1838. 
Xenus cinereus Gray, List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. ni., p. 96, 1844 (pars). 
Limosa cinerea id., Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 570, 1847 (pars) ; Schrenck, Vogels des 
Amur-Landes, p. 419, 1860 ; Radde, Reisen Suden von Ost-Sibir., p. 330, 1863. 
Terekia cinerea Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 34, 1848 ; id., Handb, Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 261, 1865 ; Seebohm, Ibis 1879, p. 152 ; Salvador!, Ornitb. Papua, e 
Mol., Vol. III., p. 326, 1882 ; Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 132, 1885 ; 
Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 945, 1892 ; Taezanowski, Mem. 
I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 856, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 474, 1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 85, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 813, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 85, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 27, 1908. 
Limosa {Simorhynchus) cinerea MiddendorfiE, Sibirische Reise, p. 216, 1851. 
Totanus cinereus Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. V., Scolopaces, p. 77, 1864. 
Tringa [Terekia) cinerea Ramsay, Proc. Lmn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 198, 1878 ; id., 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888. 
Totanus terekius Seebohm (pars) Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 369, 1887. 
RhyncJiosimus cinereus Heine (pars) Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 326, 1888. 
Tringa cinerea Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 221, 1912. 
Distribution. Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to Australia in winter. 
Adult male, in summer-plumage. General colour above, brown with a bronzy sheen, the 
feathers lined with brown shaft-streaks on the head, back, and scapulars, some 
of the short scapulars almost entirely black, which looks like two brown parallel 
lines ; lesser, median, and greater wing-coverts for the most part dark brown, like 
the bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills, the latter paler and inclining to 
* The Plate is lettered Tringa cinerea. 
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