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EREUNETES. 



E. pusillus. E. occickntalis. 



Summer plumage. 



EREUNETES PUSILLUS. 



CANADIAN SEMIPALMATED STINT. 



Diagnosis. Ereunetes dorso postico et interscapulio fere concoloribus : tarso breviore (minus quam 

 26 millim.). 



Variations. The Western form of this species lias a longer bill, and may fairly be regarded as 

 subspecifically distinct. 



Sj-nonymy. Tringa cinclus dominicensis minor, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 222 (1760). 



Tringa pusilla, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 252 (1766). 

 Ereunetes petrificatus, Illiger, Prodromus, p. 262 (1811). 

 Tringa semipalmata, Wilson, Am. Orn. vii. p. 131 (1813). 

 Tringa brevirostris, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 76 (18.25). 



Hemipalama semipalmata (Wilson), Bonap. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. v. p. 88 (1825). 

 Pelidna brissoni, Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 277 (1828). 



Heteropcda semipalmata {Wilson), Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. §• Canada, ii. p. 135 (1834). 

 Hemipalama minor, Lembeye, Av. Isla Cuba, -p. 97 (1850). 

 Ereunetes pusillus (Linn.), Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1861, p. 177. 



Literature. 



Specific 

 characters. 



Plates. — Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 63. fig. 3; Audubon, Birds Am. v. pi. 336. 

 Habits. — Baird, Brewer, & Ridgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 205. 

 Eggs. — Described by Brewer on p. 210 of the above-mentioned volume. 



The Canadian Semipalmated Stint, Little Sandpiper, or Semipalmated Sandpiper, as 

 it has been variously called, so closely resembles the small Tringas in the colour of its 





