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T, semipalmata. Semipalmated Sandpiper. 

 Ereunetes petrificatus. Baird ! 



D.c. "Bill shorter than the head, straight, somewhat de- 

 pressed and enlarged towards the point ; rump blackish ; middle 

 tail feathers longest. Summer plumage varied with blackish, 

 olive grey, and pale rufous ; beneath, except the breast white. 

 Winter dress dark cinereous, beneath principally white ; feet 

 semipalmate." — (Nuttall). 



Sub genus Tetanus. 



Sub gen. char. Bill moderate, slender, straight, furrowed to 

 near the middle, compressed, acute, slightly curved at the point ; 

 nostrils basal, lateral, linear ; inner toe cleft, outer toe connected 

 to the middle as far as the first, sometimes to the second joint ; 

 thumb short, slender, barely touching the ground. 



T, vociferus. Greater Yellow-shanks. 

 T. melanoleucas of Viellot and Buonaparte ! 

 Scolopax vociferus of Wilson ! 

 Gambetta melanoleuca, Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill black changing to yellow at the base ; legs and feet 

 yellow ; irides hazel ; eggs uncertain or unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Line from the nostrils to, and circumventing 

 the eye white; crown of head brown, margined with white; neck 

 cinereous with brown streaks ; interscapulary region, and rump 

 cinereous, margined and occasionally spotted with white ; great 

 and small wing coverts, long and short scapulars cinereous, chano-. 

 ing to glossy brown on the long scapulars, with marginal trian- 

 gular spots of white on both outer and inner vanes ; tail coverts 

 white wth zigzag bars of brown; tail brown barred with white* 

 quills plain clove brown ; the shaft of the first primary white. 



Ventral aspect. Chin, belly, vent, central tail coverts, white • 

 throat streaked with brown ; sides of the breast brown, with a 

 terminal spot of white on each vane near the tip ; flank feathers 

 axillaries, and lateral tail coverts pure white, with irreo-ular dis- 

 tant zigzag bars of brown ; lower surface of the quills hoary. 



1st primary longest ; long scapulars subequal to the 5th pri- 

 mary. Length 14J inches; alar expanse 22 inches; length of 

 bill 2A inches ; length of the tarsus 2\ inches ; length of middle 

 toe Ij inch. 



