14 KEY TO THE SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



GROUP II. 



Birds having wings from 3.75 to 4.50 inches long. 

 Section 1. Toes, 4, with small lobate webs. 



More or less rufous on sides of neck. 



Northern Phalarope. 



Phalarojmx lobatus. 

 See page 33. 



Section 2. Toes, 4, with small web (not lobate) at base. 



Bill, under .85: hack, not greenish olive; bill, entirely 

 black. 



Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



Ernmetex pusillus. 



See page 51. 



KreiineteH |ui-illn-. 



Bill, over .85; bai-k, not greenish olive; bill, black; no white patch on inner 

 webb of third primary. 



Western Sandpiper. 



Ereunetes occidental. 

 See page 52. 



Small web between outer and middle toe; bill, over .85; back, greenish olive, 

 sometimes banded; under mandible, pale yellow (in life); third primary and 

 inner primaries with patch of white on inner web. 



Spotted Sandpiper. 



Actites macularia. 

 See page 66. 



Section 3. Toes, 4, without web. 



Belly, white; bill, black. 



Least Sandpiper. 



Trinya minutilla. 

 See page 48. 



Trinya ininutillii. 



