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spangled or dotted with pale buffy; underparts immaculate dull 
white, more or less tinged with buff, especially on foreneck (throat 
to chest, inclusive). 
Adult male.—Wing, 91-99 (94.6); tail, 37.5-42 (40.2); exposed 
culmen, 20.5-23.5 (22.5); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.2); middle toe, 15-16.5 
(15.7) .% 
Aduli female.—Wing, 90-99.5 (96.4); tail, 38-47 (41.7); exposed 
culmen, 23-28 (25.9); tarsus, 21-24 (22.1); middle toe, 16-17 (16.6).° 
North and Middle America and northern South America; breeding 
along Bering Sea coast of Alaska, from mouth of Yukon River to 
Kotzebue Sound; migrating southward, chiefly westward of Rocky 
Mountains, but not uncommonly along Atlantic coast, from Massa- 
chusetts southward; wintering from North Carolina and southern 
Lower California to Colombia (Sabanilla), Peru (Paracas Bay), 
Venezuela (Margarita Island), and Trinidad. 
Heteropoda mauri Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 49 (South and central 
parts [N. Am.]; =nomen nudum).—Gunpacs, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 419 
(Cuba).—Léotavp, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 480. 
Ereunetes mauri CaBants, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 419 (Cuba; crit.).— ALLEN, Auk, 
xxiii, 1906, 98, in text (crit. nomencl.).—AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION, 
Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 117.—Carrixer, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 421 
(Barranca de Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, Aug. 12 and 20, 1906; La Herradura 
de Punta Arenas, Aug. 12).—Hatuaway, Auk, xxx, 1913, 551 (Long Island 
records).—Brooxs (W. S.), Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., lix, 1915, 381 (Hast 
Cape and Cape Serdze, n. e. Siberia, July 14, 16).—Hzrsry, Smithson. 
Misc. Coll., Ixvi, no. 2, 1916, 24 (shores of Norton Sound).—Brooxs (A.), 
Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 36 (Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia, common in fall, rare in 
spring; crit.).—Barrscx, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxx, 1917, 132 (Haiti). 
[Ereunetes] maurii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 596.—Gray, Hand- 
list, iii, 1871, 51, no. 10321.—Hxr1nz and ReicHEnow, Nom. Mus. Hein. 
Orn., 1890, 328 (Guiana). 
[Ereunetes petrificatus] var. mauri GuNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 340 (Cuba), 
Tringa semipalmata (not of Wilson) TowNnsEnD, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii. 
1839, 156 (n. w. United States). 
(?) Triviga cabanisii ‘Lichtenstein’? CaBanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 420 (crit.). 
Ereunetes occidentalis LAWRENCE, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xvi, April, 1864, 107 
(California; Oregon; coll. G. N. Lawrence).—Ett1o7, Illustr. New and Unfig. 
N. Am. Birds, pt. 7, 1867 (vol. ii), pl. 41; N. Am. Shore Birds, 1895, 100, pl. 
sg 27.—Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vii, 1884, 178 (Sabanilla, Colombia, 
March).—Hensuaw, Auk, ii, 1885, 384 (Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, Aug. 
27, 1870).—Smits (H. M.), Auk, ii, 1885, 385 (Piney Point, Maryland, Aug., 
1885, common).—AMERICAN OrNITHOLOGISTS’ Unton, Check List, 1886, and 
2nd ed., 1895, no. 247.—EvErmMann, Auk, iii, 1886, 91 (Ventura Co., Cali- 
fornia).—Scotr, Auk, iii, 1886, 386 (Tucson, Arizona); v, 1888, 184 (Florida, 
regular winter visitant); vi, 1889, 157 (Gulf coast Florida in winter); ix, 1892, 
212 (Coloosahatchie River, Florida, winter).—Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, 
1886, 148 (St. Michaels; Aleutian Islands; habits)—Netson, Rep. N. H. 
Coll. Alaska, 1887, 113 (St. Michaels, etc.; habits)—Lioyp, Auk, iv, 1887, 
@ Twelve specimens. b Eleven specimens. 
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