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and Chile; casual in winter in southern Texas and Mexico; in migration 

 occurs in interior Canada, the western Mississippi Valley, the West Indies, and 

 Central America; less common and irregular on the Atlantic coast and the 

 coast of British Columbia. Casual in Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova 

 Scotia, and Bermuda. 



Genus EREUNETES Illiger. 



Ereunetes Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, 262. Type, by monotypy, Ereunetes 

 'petrificatus Illiger = T^nn^a pusilla Linnaeus. 



Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus). Semipalmated Sandpiper. [246.] 



Tringa pusilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 252. Based on La 

 petite Alouette-de-mer de S. Domingue, Cinclus Dominicensis minor 

 Brisson, Orn., V, 222. (in Domingo = Santo Domingo, West Indies.) 



Range. — -Breeds from northeastern Siberia and the Arctic coast of North 

 America south to the mouth of the Yukon and Hudson Bay (Churchill) and 

 east to southwestern Baffin Island and northern Labrador. Winters from 

 South Carolina and the Gulf of Mexico through the West Indies and Central 

 America to Patagonia; migrates mainly east of the Rocky Mountains but 

 occurs in migration in British Columbia. Casual in the Pribilof Islands; 

 accidental in the British Isles. 



Ereunetes maurii Cabanis. Western Sandpiper. [247.] 



Ereunetes Mauri Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., VI, No. 24, Nov., 1856 [1857], 

 419. (Cuba.) 



Range. — Breeds along the Alaska coast from the Yukon delta to Point 

 Barrow. Winters from North Carolina and Washington to Venezuela and 

 Peru; in migration occurs mainly west of the Rocky Moimtains, less commonly 

 in the interior and on the Atlantic coast as far north as New Hampshire, and in 

 the West Indies. 



Genus TRYNGITES Cabanis. 



Tryngites Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., VI, No. 24, Nov., 1856 [1857], 418. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Tringa rufescens YiEii^hOT = Tringa subruficollis 

 Vieillot. 



Tryngites subruficollis (Vieillot) . Buflf-breasted Sandpiper. [262.] 



Tringa subruficollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., 

 XXXIV, 1819, 465. (Paraguay.) 



Range. — Breeds along the Arctic coast from northern Alaska to northern 

 Mackenzie. Winters in Argentina and Uruguay; most abundant in migration 

 in the Mississippi Valley and Canadian prairies; occasional on the Atlantic 



