BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 209 



August, 1912).— Brooks (W. S.>, Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 379 



(Demarcation Point, Alaska, May, June; breeding?; Herschel Island, Aug. 



2).— Wetmore, Bull. 320, U. S. Dept. Agric, 1916, 44 (Porto Rico, rare 



winter visitant). 

 [ Micro palama] himantopus Gundl.a.ch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 340 (Cuba). — 



CouEs, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 254. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 



Neotr., 1873, 145.— Cory, Hist. Birds West Ind., revised ed., 1886, 26.— 



Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 159. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. 



Mus., ii, no. 2, 1899, 70 (New York; Yquitos, Peru). 

 M[icropalama] himantopus Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 383 (Illinois); 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 152.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 623. 

 {Micropelama] himantopus Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 48, no. 10298. 

 Ereunetes himantopus Sundevall, Oefv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockholm, 1869, 587, 



602 (Porto Rico; St. Bartholomew). — Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidse, 



1887, pp. xxiv, 400, fig. 

 Tringa douglasii Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii. 1831, 397 (Saskatchewan, Hud- 

 son Bay. etc.;=summor adult). — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water 



Birds, 1834, 141. 

 Tringa douglassii Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, pi. 66. 

 Tringa (Hemipalamn) douglasH Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., ii, 1834, 141. 

 Tringa (Ilemipalama) audubonii Nuttall, Man. Orn. LT. S. and Can., Water Birds, 



1834, 140 ("Hayes River, countries of Hudson's Bay, lat. 57^"). 

 E[emipalama] auduboni Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, 578. 

 H[emipalama] multistriata " Licht[enstein] " Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, 578. 

 Hemipalama multistriata Leotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 466. — Pelzeln, Orn. 



Bras., iii, Abth., 1870. 311; iv Abth., 1870, 457. 

 Hemipalma multistriata KNEELAND,Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi,1857, 238 (Keweenaw 



Point, Mich.). 

 Himantopus nigricolHs (not of Yieillot) Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1849, 84 (Bermudas; 



seeHurdis, Contr. Orn., 1850, 10). 



Genus EREUNETES Illiger. 



Ereunetes Illiger, Prodromus Orn., 1811, 262. (Type, by monotypy, E. petri- 



ficatus llliger= rn/i(/a pusilla Linnaeus.) 

 Symphemia Rafinesque, Journ. do Physique, Ixxxviii, June, 1819, 418. (Type, 



Tringa semipalmata Wilson= T. pusilla Linnaeus.) 

 Hemipalama Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 187. (Type, 



by original designation, Tringa semipalmata Wilson=T. pusilla Linnaeus.) 

 Heteropoda Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Canada, Water Birds, 1834, 135. (Type, 



by original designation, Tringa semipalmata Wilson=T. pusilla Linnaeus.) 



Small Eroliinse (wing 88-102 mm.) with a distinct web between 

 basal phalanges of both outer and middle and inner and middle toes, 

 tarsus not more than one-fourth as long as wing, and bare portion 

 of tibia shorter than middle toe without claw. 



Bill compressed, straight, variable in length (exposed culmen de- 

 cidedly shorter than tarsus to much longer), tapering terminally in 

 lateral profile, but in vertical profile narrow from base, with edges 

 parallel to near tip, where slightly expanded; nasal groove broad 

 basally, contracted distally, extending nearly to base of expanded 

 tip of maxilla; mandible with a narrow and rather indistinct lateral 



40017— 10— Bull. 50, pt 8 15 



