184 AXNALS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 



99. Ereunetes mauri Cabanis. 



Four specimens : Buritaca and Punto Caiman. 



The South American records of the Western Sandpiper are very 

 few indeed, the Caribbean coast apparently being the extreme limit of 

 its range in this direction. There is a single specimen from Buritaca, 

 September 20, 1899, in the collection received from Mr. Smith, and 

 three others taken by Mr. Carriker, at Punto Caiman, September 28 

 and October 1, 1913. 



100. Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus). 



Ereunetes pusillus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 126 (Cie- 

 naga). — Allen, Auk, XVII, 1900, 364 (Cienaga). 



Four specimens : Buritaca and Rio Hacha. 



Mr. Smith sent in two specimens of the Semipalmated Sandpiper 

 from Cienaga, September 12, and three from Buritaca, September 20, 

 1899. J I r - Carriker shot one at Rio Hacha, May 4, 1914, on the salt 

 plain near the mouth of the river. It is probably a winter resident 

 along the coast. 



101. Micropalama himantopus (Bonaparte). 



Micropalama himantopus Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 126 

 (Cienaga). — Allen, Auk, XVII, 1900, 364 (Cienaga). — Cooke, Bull. Biol. 

 Survey, No. 35, 1910, 29 (Cienaga, ex Allen). 



The only record for the Stilt Sandpiper in this region pertains to a 

 single specimen received by the American Museum of Natural History 

 from Mr. Smith, shot at Cienaga, September 13, 1898. The bird is 

 rare, and its winter range is imperfectly known, but probably includes 

 this region. 



102. Capella jamesoni (Bonaparte). 



Gallinago jamesoni Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, 661 (Sierra 

 Nevada [de Santa Marta]). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1900, 

 183 (Sharpe's reference). 



One specimen : Taquina. 



The specimen agrees with an example from Ecuador collected by 

 Mr. Samuel N. Rhoads, but the bill is 86 mm. long instead of 66, as in 

 the other. What the significance of this discrepancy may be cannot 

 be determined at present. 



One fine male of this large snipe was shot March 29, 1914, in the 

 same little marsh at Taquina in which the Wilson Snipe were taken. 



