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Genus EREUNETES llliger, Prodr. Syst, Nat. 1811, p. 2G2. 

 Type: E. pusilla (Linn.). 

 Ereunetes=tpevvi)TT)s, a searcher or prober. 



Ereunetes pusillus. SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa pusilla Linnaws, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 

 p. 252 : S. Domingo, W. Indies. 



Ereunetes pusillus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 

 1896, p. 514 ; N. F. Ticehurst, ' British Birds,' i. 1907, 

 p. 223. 



Pusillus= small. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor, obtained 

 once at Romney Marsh, Kent, Sept. 1907. 



General Distribution. The Semipalmated Sandpiper breeds 

 in Arctic North America, north of the mouth of the Yukon 

 river and southern Ungava. In winter it visits the southern 

 United States and ranges southwards through South America 

 to Patagonia ; it is occasionally met with in the Pribilof 

 Islands and north-eastern Siberia. A second race inhabiting 

 Alaska has been recognised by American authors. 



Genus BARTRAMIA Lesson, Traite d'Orn. 1831, p. 553. 

 Type : B. longicauda (Bechst.). 



Bartramia, named after Wm. Bartram of Philadelphia (1739-1823), traveller 

 and naturalist. 



Bartramia longicauda. BAKTEAM'S SANDPIPER. 



Tringa longicauda BeclitteinJti-mzQ Ufcbers. aller bekannt. 

 Vogel. iv. 1812, p. 453 : N. America. 



Actiturus longicauda (Bcclist.} ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 



p. 173. 

 Bartramia longicauda Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 189G, p. 509 ; 



Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 603. 



= long-tailed, from loiujus and cuuda. 



