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Genus EREUNETES Iuicer. (Page 148, pl. XLVIIL,, fig. 3.) 
Species. 
Common CHaracters.—Rump slate-grayish ; upper tail-coverts and middle tail- 
feathers dusky, rest of tail-feathers ash-gray; wing-coverts and tertials brownish 
gray, with darker shaft-streaks, the greater coverts tipped with white; superciliary 
region and lower parts white, the former finely streaked with dusky. Summer 
adults with feathers of back, scapulars, etc., blackish centrally, their edges more or 
less buffy or rusty; chest streaked or spotted with dusky. Winter plumage with 
upper parts plain grayish, the feathers with darker shaft-streaks; chest nearly or 
quite immaculate. Young: Much like summer adult, but chest tinged with dull 
buffy, and without streaks, and the scapulars and feathers of back margined termi- 
nally with white. Downy young: Forehead whitish, divided medially by a black 
line; crown chestnut, marbled posteriorly with black and white; occiput marbled 
whitish ; a line of black on lores, forking just in front of eye, the upper branch run- 
ning toward anterior corner of eye, the other inclining downward ; upper parts ful- 
vous-brown or rusty laterally, black centrally, the whole surface thickly bespangled 
with white downy tufts; throat fulvous-whitish ; other lower parts dull whitish, 
nearly pure on belly. Length about 5.25-6.75. 
a. Culmen .68-.75 (.72) in male, .80-.92 (.84) in female. Summer adulé with little 
rusty on upper parts, the prevailing color above being grayish brown, tinged 
on sides of head (above ear-coverts), scapulars, etc., with pale buffy cinnamon, 
but this often nearly absent; chest narrowly streaked with dusky. Young 
with little of rusty or ochraceous on upper parts. Male: Wing 3.65-3.90 
(3.69), culmen .68-.75 (.72), tarsus .80-.90 (.85), middle toe .55-.65 (.62). 
Female: Wing 3.85-4.00 (3.91), culmen .80-.92 (.84), tarsus .85-.95 (.90), 
middle toe .55-.65 (.61). Eggs 1.21 x 0.85, pale dull grayish buff, sprinkled, 
speckled, or spotted with dark brown and purplish gray. Hab. Northern 
and eastern North America, breeding from Labrador and western shores 
of Hudson’s Bay to northern Alaska; west, during migrations, to Rocky 
Mountains........sseeeevees 246. E. pusillus (Linn.). Semipalmated Sandpiper. 
a. Culmen .85-.95 (.88) in male, 1.00-1.15 (1.05) in female. Summer adult with 
upper parts chiefly rusty, or bright rusty cinnamon, the feathers spotted cen- 
trally with black, the rusty or cinnamon sometimes uniform along sides of 
head (above ear-coverts), and a more or less distinct stripe of same on side 
of head ;.chest and breast thickly marked with broad streaks (sometimes 
widened into triangular spots) of dusky, the sides marked with sagittate 
spots of the same. Young: Upper parts, including top of head, with rusty 
ochraceous prevailing. Downy young: Rusty areas of upper parts more ex- 
tended and brighter in color. Male; Wing 3.60-3.75 (3.68), culmen .85-.95 
(.88), tarsus .85-.90 (.87), middle toe .55-.60 (.59). Female : Wing 3.70-3.90 
(3.82), culmen 1.00-1.15 (1.05), tarsus .90-.95 (.93), middle toe .60-.65 (.61). 
Eggs 1.24 X 0.87, deep ene sprinkled, speckled, or thickly spotted 
