BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 915 
? [Breunetes] cabanisi Licntenstzin, Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854 92 (North America). 
Ereunetes occidentalis (not of Lawrence) Murpocs, Rep. Exped. Point Barrow, 
1885, 148 (May-Sept., breeding). 
EREUNETES MAURI Cabanis. 
WESTERN SANDPIPER. 
Similar to Z. pusillus, but bill averaging much longer; summer 
adults much more rufescent above and more heavily streaked or 
spotted on anterior underparts, and young with rusty ochraceous or 
cinnamon predominating on upper parts. 
Adults in summer.—Above bright rusty cinnamon, the feathers 
black centrally, the cinnamon or rusty sometimes uniform along 
sides of crown; wing-coverts grayish brown or brownish gray with 
darker narrow shaft-streaks and ill-defined paler margins, the greater 
coverts tipped with white; remiges and primary -coverts darker 
grayish brown, the primaries with white shafts; rump, upper tail- 
coverts, and middle rectrices dusky grayish brown, the feathers of 
rump more or less distinctly margined with paler, the lateral upper 
tail-coverts mostly white; remaining rectrices pale brownish gray, 
narrowly margined with whitish distally; a superciliary stripe of white 
streaked with dusky grayish, this bordered below by a stripe of light 
rusty or cinnamon on side of head, involving more or less of loral, sub- 
orbital and auricular regions; rest of head white, narrowly streaked, 
except on chin and upper throat, with grayish dusky, the sides of neck 
and foreneck similarly but more broadly streaked; rest of under- 
parts white, the chest and sides thickly marked with mostly V-shaped 
or sagittate spots of dusky; axillars and under wing-coverts (except 
along edge of wing) immaculate white; bill brownish black; iris dark 
brown; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 
Winter plumage.—Above nearly plain brownish gray or grayish 
brown, the feathers with narrow shaft-streaks of darker; superciliary 
region and underparts white, the chest faintly streaked with grayish 
or dusky. (Distinguishable from the corresponding plumage of E. 
pusillus only by the greater average length of the bill.) 
Young.—Similar to that of E. pusillus, but with rusty ochraceous 
or cinnamomeous predominating on pileum and dorsal region. ~ 
Downy young.—Similar to that of E. pusillus, but the rusty areas 
on upper parts more extended and darker (more castaneous). Fore- 
head, irregular superciliary stripe, and sides of head generally dull 
white, more or less tinged with brownish buff, especially on anterior 
portion of head;.forehead divided medially by an irregular streak of 
brownish black; a very narrow loral streak of black, extending near 
bill to eye, and beneath this a rather smaller rictal streak; crown 
and occiput light chestnut-brown or russet, margined with black and 
with several irregular spots of pale buffy; back, rump, and flanks 
mixed black and russet (the latter predominating on flanks) minutely 
