ORDER LIMICOI^E. 117 



[GENUS EURYNORHYNCHUS NILSSON. 



Eurynorhynchus NILSSON, Orn. Suecica, II, 1821, 29. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Eurynorhynchus griseus NILSSON = Platalea pygmea LINN.EUS. 



Eurynorhynchus pygmeus (LiNN^us). Spoon-bill Sandpiper. [245.] 



Platalea pygmea LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 140. ("Suri- 

 nami." = eastern Asia.) 



RANGE. Eastern Asia. Summers and presumably breeds in 

 northeastern Siberia; winters in southern and southeastern Asia; 

 casual on Choris Peninsula, Alaska.] 



GENUS EREUNETES ILLIGER. 



Ereunetes ILLIGER, Prodromus, 1811, 262. Type, by monotypy, Ere- 

 unetes petrificatus ILLIGER = Tringa pusilla LINNAEUS. 



Ereunetes pusillus (LINNAEUS). Semipalmated Sandpiper. [246.] 



Tringa pusilla LINN.GUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 252. (Santo 

 Domingo, West Indies.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds from the Arctic 

 coast of North America south to mouth of Yukon and to southern 

 Ungava; winters from Texas and South Carolina through West Indies 

 and Central America to Patagonia; migrates mainly east of the Rocky 

 Mountains; casual in British Columbia, Pribilof Islands, and north- 

 eastern Siberia; accidental in Europe. 



Ereunetes mauri CABANIS. Western Sandpiper. [247.] 



Ereunetes mauri CABANIS, Journ. fur Orn., 1856, 419. (Cuba.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Breeds along the Alaska 

 coast from Kotzebue Sound to mouth of Yukon; winters from North 

 Carolina to Florida, and from southern Lower California to Vene- 

 zuela; in migration occurs mainly west of the Rocky Mountains, but 

 also on the Atlantic coast as far north as Massachusetts and in the 

 West Indies. 



