226 CHARADRIID^. 



Genus EREUNETES Illiger, Pi-odr. Syst. Nat. 1811, p. 262. 

 Type : E. pusilla (Linn.) . 



Erewnetes^epevvtjTTjs, a, searclier or prober. 



Ereunetes pusillus. Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



Tringa pusilla Linncevs, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 

 p. 252 : S. Domingo, W. Indies. 



Ereunetes pusillus {Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Sirds S. Jif. xxiv. 

 1896, p. 514 ; iV. F. TiceJiurst, ' British Birds,' i. 1907, 

 p. 223. 



Ptisillus = small. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bare Visitor, obtained 

 once at Romney Marsh, Kent, Sept. 1907. 



General Distribution. — The Semipalmated Sandpiper breeds 

 in Arctic North America^ north o£ the mouth o£ the Yukon 

 river and southern Ungava. In winter it visits the southern 

 United States and ranges southwards through South America 

 to Patagonia ; it is occasionally met with in the Pribilof 

 Islands and north-eastern Siberia. A second race inhabiting 

 Alaska has been recognised by American authors. 



Genus BARTRAMIA Lesson, Traite d'Orn. 1831, p. 553. 

 Type : JB. longicauda (Bechst.). 



Bartramia, named after Wm. Bartram of Pliiladelpliia (1739-1823), trayeller 

 and naturalist. 



Bartramia longicauda. Baeteam's Sandpiper. 



Tringa longicauda Bechstein,Km-ze Uebers. aller bekannt. 

 Vogel. iv. 1812, p. 453 : N. America. 



Actitm-us longicauda {Bechst.) ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 



p. 173. 

 Bartramia longicauda SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 509 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 603. 



ix)n£ficnitda=long-tailed, from \on(jMs and eauda. 



