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i-oiuulpd and scattered luarkiugs of bistre; these markings are larger and more 

 numerous at tlie obtuse end. The eggs range from 1.47 to 1.50 inches in length, and 

 have a breadth of one ineli. Another set (No. 11331), obtained in 18()G, have spots 

 that are larger and more confluent about the greater end, and are more rounded in 

 shape, varying between 1.45 and 1.4() inches in length, and in breadth between 1.05 

 and 1.10 inches. 



Genus EREUNETES, Ii.lioer. 



Ercundcs, Illigku, Prodromus, ISll, '202 (type, E. iKtriJkalus, Illig,, = Triiuja pusUla, Linn.) 

 Ucmipalama, BoXAr. Obs. Wils. 1825, no. 212 (same type). 

 Ilctcropoda, NuTT. M.in. IL 1834, 135 (nee L.\tueili.e, 1804). 



Char. Size small ; anterior toes webbed at the base ; a well-developed hind toe. Bill about 

 as long as or a little longer than the head, straight, somewhat expanded at the end, about as long 

 as the tarsus ; middle toe more than hall' as long as the tarsus ; bare portion of tibia nearly equal 

 to the middle toe. 



The bill of Erewnctes is quitr stout and considerably expanded, by which it is readily distin- 

 guished from Adodromas minutilla independently of the semipalmated feet. The tarsus and mid- 

 dle toe are about equal ; the tibia denuded anteriorly for about two thirds the length of tarsus. 

 The basal meudwane of toes is more scolloped out interiorly than exteriorly ; the notch externally 

 not quite as deep as to the first joint, although the membrane extends beyond the second. There 

 is a tetidencv to hexagonal sulidivision in the bare portion of tibia anteriorly. The tail is doubly 

 emarginate. 



But one species is known, the common Semipalmated Sandpiper or " Peep." 



Ereunetes pusillus. 



THE SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 



a. pusillus. 



TrinriaimsiUa, Lixx. S. N. I. 1766, 252. 



Ereunetes pnsillus, QASiS. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad. XIIL 1S60, 195. — CouE.s, Key, 1872, 254; 



Check List, 1873, no. 417 ; 2d ed. 1S80, no. 612 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 481 (part). — Ridgw. 



Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 541. 

 Ereunetes 2>etrijkaliis, Illig. Prodr. 1811, 262 (Baliia). — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 724 



(part). — Baied, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 535. 

 Tringa scmipalmcUa, Wils. Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 131, pi. 63, lig. 3. — Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 



1831, 381. —AcD. Orn. Biog. V. 1839, 111, pL 408 ; Synop. 1839, 236 ; B. Am. V. 1842, 277, 



pi. 336. 

 Tringa (Heteropoda) semipahnaUi, Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 136. 

 Tringa hrevirostris, Spix, Av. Bras. II. 1825, 76, pi. 93. 

 Tringa Brissoni, Less. Man. II. 1828, 277. 

 Ilctcropoda^ Mauri, Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 49. 

 Ucmipalama minor, Lemb. Av. Cuba, 1850, 97. 



h. occidentalis, 



Ereunetes ocddentalis, Lawr. Pr. Philatl. Acad. 1864, 107. 

 Ereunetes 2>usilhis, var. oecidentalis, CouEs, Chcc'k List, 1873, no. 417 a. 



Ereunetes pusillus occidentalis, Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 541 a. — CotJES, Check List, 2d 

 ed. 1882, no. 613. 



Ereunetes pusillus, 

 Ereunetes petrificatus, 



y ArcT. (citations of western localities). 



Hab. The whole of North and Middle, and a considerable portion of South, America ; through- 

 out the West Indies ; Bermuda ; south to New Granada and Brazil ; breeding chiefly, if not 



