400 



EEEUNETES. 



Pseudoscolopax semipalmatus (Jerdon), Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxviii. p. 280 (1859). 

 Micropalama tacksaiiowsl<ia^ Verreaux, Rev. Mag. Zool 1860, p. 206. 

 Ereunetes semipalmatus {Jerdon), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 169. 



Literature. Plates. — Verreaux, Kev. Mag. Zool. 1860, pi. xiv. ; David 



Hume & Marshall, Game Birds of India &c. iii. pi. 47. 

 Habits. — Oates, Birds of British Burma, ii, p. 408. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Oust. Ois. Chine, pi. 121; 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geog;raphi- 

 eal distribu- 

 tion. 



The Siberian Snipe-billed Sand[)iper may be distinguished from its allies by its 

 possession of two characters : the loiver back is much paler than the mantle, and the inner 

 as well as the outer toe is united to the middle one hy a loeh at the base. 



In the colour of its plumage and in its seasonal changes it so closely resembles the 

 Bar-tailed Godwit {Limosa riifa) that it is often mistaken for it. 



The breeding-grounds of the Siberian Snipe-billed Sandpiper are unknown, but as it 

 passes through Dauria on migration, and has not been met with by any traveller liear the 

 coast, they are presumably near Yakutsk. It is a rare winter visitor to India, Pegu, China, 

 and Borneo. 



It appears to be most nearly alHed to the Alaskan Snipe-billed Sandpiper [Ereunetes 

 ffriseus seal op ace us). 



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Summer plumage. 



EREUNETES HIMANTOPUS. 



STILT-SANLPIPEB. 



Diagnosis. Ereunetes dorso postico et interscapulio fere concoloribus : tarso longiore (33 ad 46 millim.). 



