OEDEK LIMICOL^. Hy 



[Genus EURYNOEHYNCHUS Nilsson. 



Euryiwrhynchus Nilsson, Om. Suecica, II, 1821, 29. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Eurynorhynchus griseus Nilsson = Plaialea pygmea Linn^us. 



Eurynorhynchus pygmeus (Linn^us). Spoon-bill Sandpiper. [245.] 



Platalea pygmea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 140. ("Suri- 

 nami." = eastern Asia.) 



Range. — Eastern Asia. Summers and presumably breeds in 

 northeastern Siberia; winters in southern and southeastern Asia; 

 casual on Choris Peninsula, Alaska.] 



Genus EREUNETES Illigee. 



Ereunetes Illigbb, Prodromus, 1811, 262. Type, by monotypy, Ere- 

 unetes petrificaius Illigee = Tringa pusiUa Linnaeus. 



EreunStes pusillus (Linnaeus). Semipalmated Sandpiper. [246.] 



Tringa pusilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 252. (Santo 

 Domingo, West Indies.) 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from the Arctic 

 coast of North America south to mouth of Yukon and to southern 

 Ungava; winters from Texas and South Carolina through West Indies 

 and Central America to Patagonia; migrates mainly east of the Rocky 

 Mountains; casual in British Columbia, Pribilof Islands, and north- 

 eastern Siberia; accidental in Europe. 



Ereunetes maiiri Cabanis. Western Sandpiper. [247.] 



Ereunetes mauri Cabanis, Joum. fur Om., 1856, 419. (Cuba.) 



Range, — North and South America. Breeds along the Alaska 

 coast from Kotzebue Sound to mouth of Yukon; winters from North 

 Carolina to Florida, and from southern Lower California to Vene- 

 zuela; in migration occurs mainly west of the Rocky Mountains, but 

 also on the Atlantic coast as far north as Massachusetts and in the 

 West Indies. 



