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[Ereunetes] pusillus Couns, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 254, part.—SHARPE, Hand- 
list, i, 1899, 162, part. —Fornzs and Rosinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., ii, no. 2, 
1899, 71, part (New Westminster, Brit. Columbia; Fort Tejon, California). 
‘Brewnales petrificatus (not of Illiger) Xantvs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xi, 
1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, California)—(?) Savin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1883, 429 (Paracas Bay, Peru).—(?) TaczANowsKI, Orn. du Pérou, iii, 1886, 
362. 
[Ereunetes] petrificatus ScLareR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 145, part. 
Ereunetes petrifactus Brown, Ibis, 1868, 425 (Vancouver Island). ' 
Genus MACHETES Cuvier. 
Pavoncella Leacu, Syst. Cat. Mam. and Birds Brit. Mus., 1816, 29. (Type, Tringa 
pugnax Linneus.) 
Machetes Cuvier, Régne Anim., i, 1817, 490. (Type, by original designation, 
Tringa pugnax Linneus.) 
Philomachus Gray, List Gen. and Subgen. Birds, 1841, 89. (Type, Tringa 
pugnax Linneeus.) 
Machophilus THrzENEMANN, Rhea, Heft i, 1846, 117. (Substitute for Phtlomachus 
Gray.) 
Large Eroliine (wing 148-186 mm.) with outer and middle toes 
united at base by a small (but distinct) web; tarsus much longer than 
middle toe with claw; sexually dimorphic, the male being much 
larger than the female and ornamented by a conspicuous ruff of 
elongated, erectile feathers. 
Bill about as long as head (not more than one-fifth as long as wing), 
the exposed culmen shorter than middle toe with claw, straight, 
tapering terminally in lateral profile, in vertical profile with edges 
nearly parallel to the very slightly expanded tip, the latter smooth 
(not punctulate) and slightly though distinctly decurved; nasal groove 
broad basally, gradually tapering distally, where extending nearly if 
not quite to base of slightly expanded and decurved tip of maxilla; 
nostril sub-basal, linear or narrowly elliptical, longitudinal. Malar 
antia on the same vertical line as loral and frontal feathering, the 
mental antia nearly even with anterior end of nostril. Wing moder- 
ate, pointed, the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal 
secondaries by about half the length of wing, the elongated, tapering 
tertials extending nearly if not quite to tip of longest primary (at 
least in adylt males). Tail more than one-third (but much less than 
one-half) as long as wing, slightly but distinctly rounded; rectices 12. 
Tarsus much longer than bill, much longer than middle toe with 
claw, a little more than one-fourth as long as wing, continuously 
scutellate both before and behind; middle toe, with claw, longer than 
exposed culmen, the lateral toes decidedly shorter, the outer slightly 
longer than the inner; a distinct though small web between first 
phalanges of middle and outer toes. 
Plumage and coloration.—Sexually dimorphic, the adult male 
decidedly larger than the female and conspicuously different in 
