178 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Winter-visitor (Sept. to April and 

 May, occasionally June). Widely spread all coasts, especially rocky 

 ones. Thought to have bred Shetlands, but no proof. Exceptional 

 inland. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Inhabits arctic regions of Northern Hemi- 

 sphere, and breeds in Siberia, north Russia, north Scandinavia, 

 Novaya Zemlia, Spitsbergen, Iceland and Faeroes, Greenland and 

 arctic America (Melville Island, Ellesmere Land), being migratory 

 in northernmost regions, resident as far north as Iceland and south 

 Greenland, but wintering as far south as North Sea and Baltic, and 

 even in small numbers to Mediterranean and in America to Great 

 Lakes, Georgia, Florida and Bermudas. Replaced by other sub- 

 species in Alaska, the Pribilof, Commander, Aleutian and Shumagin 

 Islands. 



EREUNETES PUSILLUS 



384. Ereunetes pusillus pusillus (L.) THE SEMI-PALMATED 

 SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA PTJSILLA Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, i, p. 252 (1766 San 



Domingo). 



Ereunetes pusillu*, N. F. Ticehurst, Brit. B., i, p. 223. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. One. Romney Marsh (Kent), Sept. 17, 

 1907 (ut supra}. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds from arctic shores of North 

 America south to mouth of Yukon river and to south Ungava. 

 Winters from Texas and Carolina through West Indies and Central 

 America to Patagonia, migrating through United States (mainly 

 ast of Rocky Mountains), casual in north-east Siberia. Replaced 

 lay a very closely-allied form in north -westernmost North America 

 {Alaska coast) from Kotzebue Sound to mouth of Yukon (according 

 to A.O.U. Check-list), migrating in winter south to Florida and 

 Carolina, Trinidad and South America. 



LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA 



385. Limicola platyrhyncha platyrhyncha (Temin.) THE 

 BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA PLATYBINCHA (evidently wrong transliteration for platyrhyncha) 

 Temminck, Man. d'Orn., p. 398 (1815 Swamps of N. Europe and N. 

 America, on passage in Germany. Typical locality : north Europe). 

 Limicola platyrhyncha (Temminck), Yarrell, in, p. 362 ; Saunders, p. 577. 



DISTRIBUTION. England and Ireland. Fifteen, mostly Aug. to 

 Oct., but two April and two May. Yorks. (one), Norfolk (five), 

 Kent (two), Sussex (six), Belfast Lough (one) (Saunders, p. 577 and 

 Brit. B., n, p. 267, m, p. 257). 



