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In Missouri a fairly common migrant from March till the close 

 of May, and in fall from August till the middle of October, 

 often in company with its nearest relatives, the Pectoral Sand- 

 piper (October 13, 1893, Independence, Tindall; October 14, 

 1888, Keokuk, Praeger). 



242. AcTODROMAS MiNUTiLLA (Vicill.)- Least Sandpiper. 



Tringa minutiUa. Tringa icilsonii. Tn'nga pusilla. Peep. Mud-peep. 

 Stint. 



Geog. Dist. — The whole western hemisphere; breeding from 

 Magdalen Islands and Anticosti to the interior of Alaska ; win- 

 tering from South Carolina and southern California southward. 



In Missouri the Least Sandpiper is a fairly common transient 

 visitant from the middle of April through May to the first of 

 June, and from the middle of August to November, frequenting 

 with other sandpipers and plovers the extensive mud flats of 

 the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. 



243a. Pelidna alpina sakhalina (Vieill.). Red-backed Sand- 

 piper. 



Tringa alpina pacifica. Tringa cindus. Pelidna pacifica. Red-breast or 

 Red-back (in spring). Lead-back (in fall). Black-bellied Sandpiper. 

 Dunlin. Ox Bird. 



Geog. Dist. — North America and Eastern Asia, chiefly coast- 

 wise, rare or irregular in the interior. Breeds from Hudson Bay 

 along Arctic coast to northern Alaska. Winters in CaUfornia, 

 the South Atlantic and Gulf coast and southward. 



In Missouri the Red-backed Sandpiper is a rare transient 

 visitant, spring and fall. It was first taken in the state by Dr. 

 J. A. Allen opposite Leavenworth, May 1871 (Bull. M. C. Z., 

 vol. 3, 1872). A female in the Hurter collection was taken near 

 St. Louis, October 7, 1880, and Mr. Praeger took one near 

 Keokuk, October 4, 1885. Dates of specimens taken near 

 Lincoln, Neb., are May 22, August 23, September 4 and 11, 1904, 

 andMay 14, 1905; May 16 and 30, 1896 ; May 22, 1899; Novem- 

 ber 7, 1896; and near Omaha, May 12, 1895. 



246. Ereunetes pusillus (Linn.). Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



Tringa pusilla. Tringa semipahnata. Ereunetes petrificatus. Sand-peep. 

 Peep. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, west to Utah, breeding 

 from Labrador to Point Barrow and migrating through the 



