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Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus). Semipalmated Sandpiper. 

 An abundant spring and fall migrant on the coast; not rare 



inland. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May II, 

 1897. Latest record. New Haven, June 1, 1894. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, July 30, 1896. 

 Latest record. Oct. 23, 1894. 



The adults go south in August, Aug. 2 (1894) to Aug. 27 

 (1895), and the young follow in August, September, and October, 

 Aug. 9 (1882) to Oct. 23 (1894). 



Inland records. Sept. 25, 1890, Middletown, one killed (J. 

 H. S.) ; Oct. 7, 1891, Middletown, seen by W. E. T. and S. R. 



A partially albinistic young female with the wings largely 

 white, in the collection of L. B. B., was taken in West Haven, 

 Oct. 2, 1903, by A. Ganung. 



Breeding record. The only breeding record is that appearing 

 in Merriam, 1 of the four eggs found by Nichols in Branford, 

 July 20, 1877 ; but an examination of the only one of these four 

 eggs now extant (in the Brewer collection in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge), by Mr. Outram Bangs and 

 L. B. B., has proven this to be an unusually small egg of Actitis 

 macularia. It does not resemble eggs of either the Semipalmated 

 or the Least Sandpiper in shape, color, or markings, while in all 

 these respects it is typical of Actitis macularia. We have there- 

 fore no breeding record of E. pusillus. 



Ereunetes mauri Cabanis. Western Sandpiper. 



Probably occurs regularly in the fall, but in so small numbers 



as to escape notice. 



Connecticut records. Sept. 4, 1889, Lyme, six seen and three 

 shot by W. E. T. (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; 2 Aug. 17, 1892, Clinton, 

 young female taken (H. W. F.) J Aug. 27, 1895, Quinnipiac 

 Marshes, North Haven, young female shot (L. B. B.). 



Calidris leucophasa (Pallas). Sanderling. 

 Formerly an abundant spring and fall migrant ; now rare, and 

 occurring regularly only in the fall. 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 105. 

 a Auk, ix, 4, p. 389- 



