126 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Total length 305 nun., ciilmeu 31. ^ving 1G2, tail 79. tardus 47, 

 middle toe and claw 32. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female. ^Ving 159 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the bird described was collected by T. K. Salmon at Medellin, 

 Province Antioquia, Colombia and is now in the British Museum, 

 Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breeds in the high north and migrates south in winter. 



Range in British Guiana. "Interior Highlands^' (Qu^lch), 



Extralinntal Range. South America generally to Argentina 

 and Chile, Central and North America, accidental in Europe. 



Habits. Mr. J. J. Qnelch (Timehri (2) x. p. 272) observed this 

 species and remarks : — "' Bartram's Sandpiper [Bartramia longi- 

 cauda), which is known under a variety of common names in the 

 different localities which it frequents, such as Grey Plover, Grass 

 or Field Plover, and even Prairie-Pigeon. The species occurs 

 exceptionally as a wanderer to the British Isles and on the 

 continent of Europe, where authenticated specimens have been 

 killed. Here in the Colony, it is a common migrant with the other 

 forms, though many more seem to frequent the interior highlands 

 than in the other cases, and remain as stragglers throughout the 

 winter months. It is known to breed as far north as the Arctic 

 ( "ircle, and to range southward in its migration as far as Buenos 

 Avres." 



Genus EREUNETES Illig. 



Ereunefes Illiger, Protb". Syst. Maium. et Av. p. 202, 1811. Type 

 E. petrijtcatus Illig. 



This genus is characterised by having the tarsus about equal to 

 the culmen in length, the bare portion of the tibia nearly equal 

 to the length of the tarsus, bill widened at the end and depressed. 



79. Ereunetes pusillus. 



SeMIPALMAIED SAyDPIPER. 



Ereunetes 2}tisi 1 1 us (Linn.), Syst. Xat. i. p. 2-32, 17G6 ("'Habitat in 

 Domingo"'): Salvin, Ibis", 1886, p. 179; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxiv. p. 514, 1896; Quelch, Tmichri (2) x. p. 279, 1896 



