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TRINGA SOLITARIA SOLITARIA Wilson 



Eastekn Solitary Sandpiper 



Tringu soUtaria Wilson, Amer. Orn., vol. 7, 1813, p. 53, pi. 58, fig. 3 (Pocoiio 

 Mountains, Pa.). 



A female in full summer plumage was taken at Montet, near Port 

 au Prince, on March 28. 



CATOPTROPHORUS SEMIPALMATUS SEMIPALMATUS (Gmelin) 



Eastern Willet 



Scolopax semipalmata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 659 (Nev? York). 



A male in full breeding plumage was taken on Cayo Grande de 

 Moa on March 4. Barbour, in his memoir on the avifauna of this 

 island,^ says that he has seen few willets in Cuba. 



TOTANUS FLAVIPES (Gmelin) 



Lesser Yellowlegs 



Scolopax flavipes Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 659 (New York). 



One preserved as a skeleton was obtained near the mouth of the 

 Gibara River, Cuba, on February 24. A female in summer plumage, 

 except for the back where it is still in molt, was taken on Petite 

 Gonave Island on March 19. Another preserved as a skeleton was 

 taken at the same place on the same date, and one was seen at Montet, 

 near Port au Prince, on March 28. 



PISOBIA MINUTILLA (Vieillot) 



Least Sandpiper 



Tringa minutilla Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 34, 1819. p. 466 (Halifax, 

 Nova Scotia). 



A female was obtained at Grand-Boucan on April 9. 



EREUNETES PUSILLUS (Linnaeus) 



Semipai.matio!) .Sandpiper 



Tringa pusilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 252 (Hispaniola). 

 A female Avas secured at Grand-Boucan on April 9. 



» r.arbour, T., Mem. Nuttall Oni. Club, no. 0, .Tunc. 1023. p. 67. 



