234 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



(Xat. iu B., p. 43). A third was obtained on Pearl Island on Septem- 

 ber 10, 1874, by Captain Kirkwood, Fifty-third Eegiment. This speci- 

 men was preserved by Captain Eooke, who kindly presented it to me. 

 Three were shot at Peniston's Pond on the 17th September, 1875, by 

 Lieutenant Testing, Twentieth Eegiment, and examined by Lieutenant 

 Denison, Eoyal Engineers. 



Genus Micropalama, Bd. 



104. Micropalama himanfopus, (Bp.) Bd. Stilt Sandpiper. 



Tringa himantopua, Bp., Less., Sw. «fe Rich., And., Gir., Schl. 



Tringa {Remipalama) himantopus, Bp., Nutt. 



Hemipalama himantopus, Bp., DeKay. 



Micropalama himantopus, Bd., Salv., Cones, Lawr., Sol., Dress., Scl. & Salv., 



Allon, and later authors. 

 Ereunetes himantopus, Snnd. 

 MicropaJavia himantopus, Gray. 

 Hemipalama multistriata, Gray, Pelz. 

 Tringa {HemipaJama) auduhoni, Nutt. 



Length, 8^ to 9; wing, 5^; tail, 2^; tarsus, If. 



Hah. — North America generally ; not observed west of Eocky Mount- 

 ains; rare in the United States. West Indies; Central America; most 

 of South America. (Coues.) 



Colonel Wedderburn killed two, one of which he unfortunately lost, 

 in the beginning of August, 1848. Lieutenant Denison, Eoyal Engi- 

 neers, records another, shot by Lieutenant Festing, Twentieth Eegi- 

 ment, at Peniston's Pond, early in September, 1875. 



Genus Ereunetes, Illiger. 



105. Ureunetes pusillus, (Linn.) Cass. Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



Tringa pusilla, Linn., Gm., Lath., Schl. 



Ereunetes pusillus, Cass., Coues, and most late U. S. authors. 



Ereunetes petrificatus, 111., Cass., Hayd., Trippe, Snow. 



Tringa semipalmata, Wils., Vieil., Sw. & Rich., Aud., Gir., Newb. 



Tringa (Hemipalama) semipalmata, Bp. 



Tringa (Heferopoda) semipalmata, Nutt. 



Heteropoda semipalmata, Bp., DeKay, Gray. 



Ereunetes semipalmata, Cab.,Bp. 



Pelidna hrissoni, Less. 



Heteropoda mauri, Bp.,Gundl. 



Hemipalama minor, Lemb. 



Ereunetes otcidentalis, Lawr. 



Length, GJ; wing, 3^; tail, 1^. 



Hah. — The whole of North, Central, and most of South America. 

 (Coues). 



A regular visitor, arriving about the 1st August, or a few days earlier, 

 and found in small flocks in the sandy bays, and on the margins of the 

 open brackish ponds throughout the islands. They do not remain long. 



