EASTERN TEREK SANDPIPER. 
“ When wounded they swam and dived very weU. When isolated they 
uttered piping notes, which more than once led me to expect to find a 
species of Totanus.^^ 
Schrenck says that his specimens were collected on the Amur River, on 
the lower left bank opposite Ussuri-Mandung, on 7 (19) July. 
Radde says : “In the beginning of August I came across several of 
these birds on marshy ground, near Kirinsk ; they were in full winter 
plumage.” 
The bird figured and described is a male, and was collected on Melville 
Island, Northern Territory, on April 24th, 1912, by Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
The Eastern birds are smaller and paler than the Western ones, which 
are typical, the bird being described from the Caspian Sea. It must always 
be remembered that in these Waders the female is larger than the male, 
and if an Eastern female be compared with a Western male the difference 
is not so marked as when sexes are correctly discriminated. 
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