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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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nus LiMOSA. fBrisson.J Generic Characters.—Beak very long, more or less recurved,soft and flexible in its entire length, depressed, flattened nearthe point; both mandibles furrowed their whole length. JSTostrilslateral, placed in the lateral groove, narrow and longitudinal.Legs long and slender, and bare for a considerable spaceabove the knee; three toes in front and one behind; themiddle toe united to the external, and sometimes to the in-ternal toe, by a membrane as far as the first articulation; theposterior articulated to the tarsus. Wings medium size, thefirst primary the longest. TEREK GODWIT. Limosa tereh. Lim.osa terelc, Temminck, 1840. recurvirostra, Pallas. Schlegel, 1844. Scolopax cinerea, Guldenstadt, (after Gmelin,) 1788. Keyseeling et Blasius, 1840. terelc, Latham, 1790. Limictila terek, Vieillot. Indiana, Lesson, 1831. Terelcia java?iica, Bonaparte, 1838. ^enus cinereus, Kaup. Bonapaete, 1850. Barge Terelc, Of the Feench. Sabelschnablige Pfuldsclmepfe, Oe the Germans.
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o ,.^.^ >,i >. ,<5» 1. TEREE GODWITiWATER HEN. 3. CRESTED CO 01 TEREK GODWIT, 75 Specific Characters.—Eeat mucli turuecl up; tarsi short; middletoe sliglitly shorter than the tarsus; a white band across thewing, of which the under parts are pure white. Length eightinches.—Degland. The Terek Godwit is only an accidental visitor intoEurope. It is found thus wandering out of its realAsiatic home, on the borders of the Caspian Sea, andinto Southern Russia. According to Temminck it hasbeen killed in Normandy, and he says there is nodifference between these specimens and those which hereceived from Japan. The same author has recordedits capture near Paris. He says it strays into Europein bands of the Common Redshank. It is really anAsiatic bird, and is found plentifully in Sumatra,Borneo, and Japan. It lives upon worms, insects, and small shell-fish. As it is only half the size of the Godwits whichare known as winter visitants to the British Isles so itsegg is proportionally s

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