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spangled or dotted with pale buffy; underparts immaculate dull 

 white, more or less tinged with buff, especially on foreneck (throat 

 to chest, inclusive). 



Adult male.— Wing, 91-99 (94.6); tail, 37.5-42 (40.2); exposed 

 culmen, 20.5-23.5 (22.5); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.2); middle toe, 15-16.5 

 (15.7).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 90-99.5 (96.4); tail, 38-47 (41.7); exposed 

 culmen, 23-28 (25.9); tarsus, 21-24 (22.1); middle toe, 16-17 (16.6).^ 



North and Middle America and northern South America; breeding 

 along Bering Sea coast of Alaska, from mouth of Yukon River to 

 Kotzebue Sound; migrating southward, chiefly westward of Rocky 

 Mountains, but not uncommonly along Atlantic coast, from Massa- 

 chusetts southward; wintering from North Carolina and southern 

 Lower California to Colombia (Sabanilla), Peru (Paracas Bay), 

 Venezuela (Margarita Island), and Trinidad. 



Heteropoda mauri Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49 (South and central 

 parts [N. Am.]; ^=nomen nudum). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 419 

 (Cuba).— Leotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 480. 



Ereunetes mauri Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 419 (Cuba; crit.). — Allen, Auk, 

 xxiii, 1906, 98, in text (crit. nomencL). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 117.— Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 421 

 (Barranca de Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, Aug. 12 and 20, 1906; La Herradura 

 de Punta Arenas, Aug. 12). — Hathaway, Auk, xxx, 1913, 551 (Long Island 

 records).— Brooks (W. S.), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 381 (East 

 Cape and Cape Serdze, n. e. Siberia, July 14, 16). — Hersey, Smithson. 

 Misc. Coll., Ixvi, no. 2, 1916, 24 (shores of Norton Sound). — Brooks (A.), 

 Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 36 (Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia, common in fall, rare in 

 spring; crit.). — Bartsch, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxx, 1917, 132 (Haiti). 



[Ereunetes] maurii Bonaparte, Compt. Eend., xliii, 1856, 596. — Gray, Hand- 

 list, iii, 1871, 51, no. 10321. — Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. 

 Orn., 1890, 328 (Guiana). 



[Ereunetes petrijicatus] var. mmiri Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 340 (Cuba), 



Tringa semipalmata (not of Wilson) Townsend, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii. 

 1839, 156 (n. w. United States). 



(?) Tringa cabanisii "Lichtenstein" Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 420 (crit.). 



Ereunetes occidentalis Lawrence, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xvi, April, 1864, 107 

 (California; Oregon; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. 

 N. Am. Birds, pt. 7, 1867 (vol. ii), pi. 41; N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 100, pi. 

 27. — RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1884, 178 (Sabanilla, Colombia, 

 March). — Henshaw, Auk, ii, 1885, 384 (Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, Aug. 

 27, 1870).— Smith (H. M.), Auk, ii, 1885, 385 (Piney Point, Maryland, Aug., 



1885, common). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, and 

 2nd ed., 1895, no. 247.— Evermann, Auk, iii, 1886, 91 (Ventura Co., Cali- 

 fornia).— Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 386 (Tucson, Arizona); v, 1888, 184 (Florida, 

 regular winter visitant); vi, 1889, 157 (Gulf coast Florida in winter); ix, 1892, 

 212 (Coloosahatchie River, Florida, winter). — Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, 



1886, 148 (St. Michaels; Aleutian Islands; habits).— Nelson, Rep. N. H. 

 Coll. Alaska, 1887, 113 (St. Michaels, etc.; habits).— Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 



" Twelve specimens. ^ Eleven specimens. 



