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were seen two days later. The longer bill serves to identify them 
when they are feeding with the other species. It is probable that 
they were much more common than these two observations indicate. 
EROLIA MINUTILLA (Vieillot): Least Sandpiper, Playerito Menudo 
Tringa minutilla ViettLot, Nouveau dictionnaire d’Histoire naturelle, nouv. éd., 
vol. 34, December 1819, p. 466. (Halifax, Nova Scotia.) 
Specimens were taken on January 14 and 18 from among the abun- 
dant semipalmated sandpipers. 
CATOPTROPHORUS SEMIPALMATUS INORNATUS (Brewster): Willet, 
Playero Aliblanco 
Symphemia semipalmata inornata Brewster, Auk, vol. 4, No. 2, April 1887, 
p. 145. (Larimer County, Colorado.) 
This migrant from the north apparently is of casual occurrence on 
Coiba. January 8 I noted a number along the beach, but did not see 
them again until January 20, when I shot one of several seen at 
Maria. 
CROCETHIA ALBA (Pallas): Sanderling, Playero Arenero 
Trynga alba Pattus, in Vroeg, Catalogue raissonné d’oiseaux. Adumbratiun- 
culae, 1764, p. 7. (Coast of the North Sea.) 
Occasionally at high tide sanderlings appeared on the beach at 
the Colonia Central, sometimes alone, sometimes two or four together. 
Here they ran back and forth, as usual following the receding waves 
and then retreating quickly as the water returned. Two were taken 
for specimens February 3. 
TOTANUS FLAVIPES (Gmelin): Lesser Yellowlegs, Playero Chillén Chico 
Scolopax flavipes GMELIN, Systema naturae, vol. I, pt. 2, 1780, p. 659. (New 
York.) 
I saw one near the mouth of Rio Catival on February 2. 
ACTITIS MACULARIA (Linnaeus): Spotted Sandpiper, Playerito Coleador 
Tringa macularia LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 249. 
(Pennsylvania. ) 
This bird of the north is so prevalent on beaches and around more 
open bodies of water in Panama, many nonbreeding individuals re- 
maining throughout the year, that it is almost a native species. On 
Coiba spotted sandpipers were scattered singly along the shore, or 
along the inland streams where these ran past open banks in cleared 
