SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER. 



Ereunetes pusillus. 



Char. Feet with two webs extending about half-way up the toes. 

 Upper parts mottled brownish gray, tinged with rufous or buff, each fea- 

 ther with a central stripe of blackish ; rump darker ; under parts white, 

 the breast washed with rufous and marked with dusky. In winter plum- 

 age there is no trace of the rufous or buff tints. Length about 6 inches. 



Nes(. Usually on the margin of a pool by the sea or an inland pond, 

 — a slight depression scantily lined with leaves and grass ; sometimes hid- 

 den in a tussock of grass. 



■ 'MgS^'. 3-4; pale gray or with buff, drab, or olive tint, variously 

 marked with .brpwn ; 1.20 X 0.85. 



Commonly assaciated with other species of the same size, 

 plumage, and habits, it is not easy to offer any remark con- 

 cerning it which can be considered as exclusive. It is spread . 

 equally oyer the, North, Americaii continent, from the confines 

 of the Arctic circle probably to the, West Indies. Accprding 

 to Wilson, it arrives and departs with, the Sanderling, and asso- 

 ciates with the Dunlin when in its autumnal dress, in this case 

 forming flocks apart from each other ; but with the Peep it is 

 sometimes so blended as to be unknown till brought to the 



