Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. BY 
244. Curlew Sandpiper (Frolia ferruginea). 
Range.—Chiefly Eastern Hemisphere; occasional in North and South America. Breeds in the Yenisei 
Delta and on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia; wintersin Africa, India, Malay Archipelago, and Australia; 
in migration occurs from Great Britain to China and the Philippines; occasional in North America—Alaska 
(Point Barrow), Ontario, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey—and in the 
West Indies and Patagonia. 
Names.—The following chiefly book names have been applied to this species: 
Becasseau cocorli (purre sandpiper), cape-curlew, cape sandpiper, cocorli subarqué 
(purre or dunlin with the curved bill), guerlette (little warrior’), long-billed sand- 
piper, manubéche courlis (curlew sandpiper), pigmy-curlew. 
245. Spoonbill Sandpiper (Hurynorhynchus pygmeus). 
Rangce.—Eastern Asia. Breeds in northeastern Siberia; winters in southern and southeastern Asia; 
casual in northwestern Alaska. 
Book names.—Broad-billed sandpiper, spoon-billed sandpiper. 
246. Semipalmated Sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus). 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds from the Arctic coast of North America south to mouth 
of Yukon and to southern Ungava (Que.); winters from Texas and South Carclina through West Indies 
and Central America to Patagonia; migrates mainly east of the Rocky Mountains; casual in British Col- 
umbia, the Pribilof Islands, and northeastern Siberia; accidental in Europe. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
in general use.—Peep. 
In local use-—Beach peep (Me.); bumble-bee (N. J., Va.); bumble-bee peep 
(Mass.); hawk’s-eye (Mass.); little-birds (Va.); medium sea-chicken (N. C.); mud- 
suckers (N. J., Va.); oxeye (N. Y., N. J., Md.); pea-snipe (Ind.); pennywinkle 
(Va.); sand oxeye (N. Y.); sand peep (Mass., Long Id., N. Y.); sand snipe (Md.); 
stint (Ont., B. C.). 
Geographic index.—B. C., stint; Ind., pea-snipe; Me., beach peep; Md., oxeye, 
sand snipe; Mass., bumble-bee peep, hawk’s eye, sand peep; N. J., bumble-bee, 
mud-suckers, oxeye; NV. Y., oxeye, sand oxeye, sand peep; NV. C., medium sea- 
chicken; Ont., stint; Va., bumble-bee, little-birds, mud-suckers, pennywinkle. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Alouette de mer semipalmé (semipalmated sea-lark); black-legged peep, black- 
legged sandpiper, brown sandpiper, least snipe, little sandpiper, little stint, mau- 
béche semipalmé (semipalmated sandpiper), sand snipe. 
247. Western Sandpiper (Hreunetes maur). 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds along the Alaska coast from Kotzebue Sound to mouth of 
Yukon and in eastern Siberia; winters from North Carolina to Florida, and from southern Lower California 
to Venezuela; 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. 
Names.—This species, also called in books the western semipalmated sandpiper, is 
not differentiated by the public from the preceding species (No. 246), and is included 
under such collective terms as oxeyes, peeps, and pigmies. The name pups also is 
said to be applied to this species in California. 
248. Sanderling (Crocethia alba”). 
Range.—Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Breeds from Melville Island, Ellesmere Land, and 
northern Greenland to Point Barrow, Alaska, northern Mackenzie (N. W. T.), Iceland, and northern 
Siberia; winters from central California Texas, Virginia, and Bermuda to Patagonia and casually to Massa- 
chusetts and Washington; also from the Mediterranean, Burma, and Japan to South Africa and various 
Pacific islands, including Hawaii. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None. 
In local use —Beach-bird (Me., N. H., Mass., Md., Ala., Oreg.); beach-plover 
(Mass., Long Id., N. Y.); beach snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); bull peep (Me., Mass.); 
clamchaser (N.C.); clayton (Va.); grayback (Mass.); lake-plover (B.C.); sanderling 
(R. I., Va., Oreg.); sand peep (Fla.); sand snipe (Va.); skinner, stib (Mass.); strand 
snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); surf snipe (Long Id., N. Y., Miss.); white-plover (Wash. ); 
white sea-chicken (N. ©.); white snipe (N. S., Mass., Long Id., N. Y.); whitey, 
whiting (Mass.). 
27 Calidris leucophaea. 
