ERETJNETES. 

 No local races of this species are known. 



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Tringa himantopus, Bonap. Ann. Lye. Neio York, ii. p. 157 (1826). 



Tringa (Hemipalama) himantopus {Bonap.), Bonap. Comp. Orn. Roma e Filad. p. 61 (1827). 



Tringa douglasii, Swainson fy Richardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 379 (1831). 



Hemipalma douglasii, ) 



„ . , , , . { Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. &• Canada, ii. pp. 140, 141 (1834). 



Hemipalma audubom, ' J ' rr ^ ' 



Hemipalama himantopus (Bonap.), Bonap. Cump. List B. Eur. and N. Amer. p. 49 (1838). 



Hemipalama multistriata, Lichtenstein, fide\ 



TT , , , . .,, .. „, ( Gray, Genera of Birds, iii. p. 578 (1845). 



Hemipalama audubom (Nuttall), J " J r v ' 



Totanus himantopus (Bonap.), Lembeye, Av. Isla Cuba, p. 95 (1850). 



Micropalama himantopus (Bonap.), Baird, Cassin, fy Lawrence, Birds N. Amer. p. 726 (1858). 



Variation's. 



Synonymy. 



Plates. — Swainson & Richardson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. pi. 66 ; Audubon, Birds Am. v. pi. 334. 



Habits. — Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 201. 



Eggs. — Described by Brewer (torn. cit. p. 204) from examples collected by Macfarlane. 



Literature. 



The Stilt-Sandpiper is considerably larger than the Semipalmated Sandpiper, but not Specific 

 quite so large as the Canadian Snipe-billed Sandpiper. From its larger congeners it is ° arac rs ' 

 most easily distinguished by the character loioer back almost the same colour as the upper 

 back, whilst from the smaller species it differs considerably in the relative length of its 

 legs. In the Stilt-Sandpiper, as its name implies, the legs are long, the tarsus being 

 1'4 to l - 8 in. long, nearly a third of the length of the wing from the carpal joint. In the 

 Semipalmated Stint the tarsus is less than a fourth of the wing. The two species 

 resemble each other very closely in winter plumage, except that the Stilt-Sandpiper has 

 white upper tail-coverts. In summer plumage the bars across the upper tail-coverts and 

 the whole of the underparts make it look very different from its small ally. 



The Stilt-Sandpiper breeds in the arctic regions of America from the Rocky Mountains Geographi- 

 to Baffin's Bay, but it is not known to have occurred in Alaska or Greenland. On migra- t ; on- 

 tion it is found along the Atlantic coast as well as inland, and occasionally occurs on the 

 Bermudas (Reid, Zoologist, 1S77, p. 476). In winter its range extends from Central 

 America and the West Indies to Brazil and Peru. I have an example in my collection 

 obtained by Capt. Harrison near Buenos Ayres, which is probably the southern limit of 

 its migrations. Fraser procured it on the Pacific side of the Andes in Ecuador (Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 290 j, and Bartlett found it on the Atlantic slopes of the Andes 

 in Peru (Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 199). 



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