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  Cvirlew 
  sandpiper. 
  Erolia 
  f 
  erruginea 
  (Briinnich). 
  From 
  Audubon, 
  Birds 
  of 
  America. 
  About 
  i 
  nat. 
  size 
  

  

  Ereunetes 
  pusillus 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Semipalmated 
  Sandpiper 
  

  

  Plate 
  35 
  

  

  Tringa 
  pusilla 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  12. 
  1766. 
  i-'252 
  

   Heteropoda 
  semipalmata 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  236, 
  fig. 
  195 
  

   Ereunetes 
  pusilla 
  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  246 
  

  

  ereune'tes, 
  Gr. 
  epewT^rrJs, 
  searcher 
  or 
  prober; 
  pusil'lus, 
  Lat. 
  small 
  

  

  Description. 
  Toes 
  with 
  basal 
  membrane, 
  that 
  between 
  the 
  middle 
  

   and 
  outer 
  extending 
  to 
  the 
  second 
  joint, 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  toes 
  slightly 
  margined; 
  

   bill 
  straight, 
  much 
  wider 
  than 
  in 
  Tringa 
  minutilla 
  and 
  enlarged 
  

   at 
  the 
  tip; 
  tail 
  doubly 
  emarginate. 
  Summer: 
  Coloration 
  similar 
  to 
  the 
  

   Least 
  sandpiper 
  in 
  pattern, 
  but 
  the 
  edgings 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  feathers 
  pale 
  

   buffy 
  cinnamon. 
  Winter: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  plain 
  grayish 
  with 
  dark 
  shaft 
  

   streaks, 
  breast 
  mostly 
  without 
  streaks. 
  Young: 
  Marked 
  with 
  buffy 
  and 
  

   grayish 
  white 
  and 
  the 
  chest 
  tinged 
  with 
  buffy. 
  

  

  Length 
  5.5-6.55 
  inches; 
  extent 
  11. 
  5-12. 
  75; 
  wing 
  3.25-3.95; 
  tail 
  1.5- 
  

   1.65; 
  tarsus 
  .85-.95; 
  middle 
  toe 
  ■55-.65; 
  bill 
  .66-. 
  92. 
  

  

  