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[Ereunetes] pusillus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 254, part.— Sharps, Hand- 

 list, i, 1899, 162, part. — Forbes and Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 

 1899, 71, part (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia; Fort Tejon, California). 



Ereunetes petrijicatiis (not of Illiger) Xantus, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., xi, 

 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, California).— (?) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1883, 429 (Paracas Bay, Peru).— (?) Taczanowski, Orn. du P^rou, iii, 1886, 

 . 362. 



[Ereunetes] petrificatus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 145, part. 



Ereunetes petrifactus Brown, Ibis, 1868, 425 (Vancouver Island). 



Genus MACHETES Cuvier*. 



Pavoncella Leach, Syst. Cat. Mam. and Birds Brit. Mus., 1816, 29. (Type, Tringa 



pugnax Linnaeus.) 

 Machetes Cuvier, Regne Anim., i, 1817, 490. (Type, by original designation, 



Tringa pugnax Linnaeus.) 

 Philomachus Gray, List Gen. and Subgen. Birds, 1841, 89. (Type, Tringa 



pugnax Linnaeus.) 

 J/ac/iopHZiis Thienemann, Rhea, Heft i, 1846, 117. (Substitute for Philomachus 



Gray.) 



. Large Eroliinse (wing 148-186 mm.) with outer and middle toes 

 united at base by a small (but distinct) web; tarsus much longer than 

 middle toe with claw; sexually dimorphic, the male being much 

 larger than the female and ornamented by a conspicuous ruff of 

 elongated, erectile feathers. 



Bill about as long as head (not more than one-fifth as long as wing), 

 the exposed culmen shorter than middle toe with claw, straight, 

 tapering terminally in lateral profile, in vertical profile with edges 

 nearly parallel to the very slightly expanded tip, the latter smooth 

 (not punctulate) and slightly though distinctly decurved ; nasal groove 

 broad basally, gradually tapering distally, where extending nearly if 

 not quite to base of shghtly expanded and decurved tip of maxilla; 

 nostril sub-basal, linear or narrowly elliptical, longitudinal. Malar 

 antia on the same vertical line as loral and frontal feathering, the 

 mental antia nearly even with anterior end of nostril. Wing moder- 

 ate, pointed, the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal 

 secondaries by about half the length of wing, the elongated, tapering 

 tertials extending nearly if not quite to tip of longest primary (at 

 least in adult males). Tail more than one-third (but much less than 

 one-half) as long as .wing, slightly but distinctly rounded; rectices 12. 

 Tarsus much longer than bill, much longer than middle toe v/ith 

 claw% a little more than one-fourth as long as wing, continuously 

 scutellate both before and behind; middle toe, with claw, longer than 

 exposed culmen, the lateral toes decidedly shorter, the outer slightly 

 longer than the inner; a distinct though small web between first 

 phalanges of middle and outer toes. 



Plumage and coloration. — Sexually dimorphic, the adult male 

 decidedly larger than the female and conspicuously different in 



