76 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LIMICOLAE. 



SCOLOPACIDAE. 



Me. — Accidental visitor: Pine Point, Cumberland Co., Sept. 15, 

 1881. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: five records. May; Aug. 



R. I. — Doubtfully recorded. 



Conx. — Accidental visitor: four records. (June 1S74, New 

 Haven); Aug. 30-Oct. 3. 



146. Ereuxetes pusillus (Linne) Cassin. 



Semipalmated sandpiper; Black-legged peep; Peep; Sand 

 ox-eye; Sand peep. 



Tringa pvsilla Linne, Syst. nat., ed. 12, 1766, vol. 1, p. 252. 

 "ix Domixgo." 



Tringa semipalmata Wils. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, 

 vol. 5, p. 277, pi. 336. 



Sand beaches and marshes; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Common migrant. May-June 5; July 29-Sept. 28 (Oct.). 



N. H. — Common migrant. May; July-early Sept. 



Vt. — Uncommon migrant to larger lakes. 



Mass. — Common migrant; non-breeding birds occur in summer 

 coastwise. (May 1) May 13-June 14; (summer); July 3-Oct. 8 

 (Oct. 30). 



R. I. — Common migrant. May 13-June 2; July 14-Oct. 10. 



Coxx. — Common migrant. May-early June; July-Oct. 



147. Ereuxetes mauri Cabanis. 



t 



Western semipalmated sandpiper 



Cab., Journ. f. ornith., 1856, p. 419. "Cuba." 



Ereunetes pusillus occidentalis (Lawrence). Baird, Brewer, and 



Ridgway, Water birds of No. Amer., 1884, vol. 1, p. 206, fig. of 



head. 



Sand beaches and marshes; nests on the ground. 



