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EBETJNETES. 



Pseudoscolopax semipalmatus (Jerdon), Blyth, Journ. As. Sue. Beng. xxviii. p. 280 (1859). 

 Micropalama tacksanowslua, Verreaux, Rev. Mag. Zool I860, p. 206. 

 Ereunetes semipalmatus {Jerdon), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 169. 



Literature. Plates. — Verreaux, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1860, pi. xiv. ; David & Oust. Ois. Chine, pi. 121; 



Hume & Marshall, Game Birds of India &c. iii. pi. 47. 

 Habits. — Oates, Birds of British Burma, ii. p. 408. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



The Siberian Snipe-billed Sandpiper may be distinguished from its allies by its 

 possession of two characters : the lower back is much paler than the mantle, and the inner 

 as well as the outer toe is united to the middle one by a web at the base. 



In the colour of its plumage and in its seasonal changes it so closely resembles the 

 Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa rvfa) that it is often mistaken for it. 



The breeding-grounds of the Siberian Snipe-billed Sandpiper are unknown, but as it 

 passes through Dauria on migration, and has not been met with by any traveller near the 

 coast, they are presumably near Yakutsk. It is a rare winter visitor to India, Pegu, China, 

 and Borneo. 



It appears to be most nearly allied to the Alaskan Snipe-billed Sandpiper {Ereunetes 

 griseus scolopaceus). 



Summer plumage. 



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EREUNETES HIM ANT0PUS. 



STILT-SANDPIPER. 



Diagnosis. Ekeunetes dorso postico et interscapulio fere concoloribus : tarso longiore (33 ad 46 millim.). 



