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slightly tinged with reddish. The wings and tail are much as in the adult, 
the upper tail coverts, however, scarcely barred. The under parts are white ; 
the jugulum, and, to some extent, the sides under the wings with a lighter 
wash of the color of the back, and with very obsolete streaks of dusky. The 
under tail coverts laterally are slightly streaked with dusky. There is an 
indistinct white line over the eye, and a dusky one between the eye and bill. 
The auriculars show traces of the reddish, but there is none to be perceived 
on the nape or sides of the occiput. The bill is black, as in the adult, but the 
legs are very different, being light greenish yellow. 
The synonymy of this Sandpiper, in consequence of its very remarkable 
form and colors, is definite and well determined, though, as will be seen by the 
list given, various names have been applied to it by different authors. It was 
first introduced to the scientific world in 1826, by Bonaparte, in the Annals of 
the N. Y. Lyceum, under the name of Tringa himantopus. By the same author 
it was afterwards placed in his subgenus Remipalama , (subsequently erected 
into a genus.) The type of this, however, being, as already stated, the T. 
semipalmata of Wilson, the name cannot of course be retained. Nearly all 
authors who speak of it employ Remipalama , giving it either subgeneric or 
full generic rank. Lambeye, however, places the bird in Totanus, probably 
with reference to the long legs and the webbing of the toes. Tringa Douglassii 
of Swainson, is undoubtedly the present bird in mature plumage, though the 
figure indicates a more rufescent state of plumage than I have ever seen. The 
Tringa himantopus “Bon.” of the same author, Nuttall, (page 40 of the 
Manual,) very precipitately “ ventures to consider as a distinct species from 
the preceding” (T. himantopus ,) and names it Tringa ( Remipalama ) Audu- 
bonii, though retaining both the T, himantopus Bon. and Douglassii Sw. I 
have little doubt, however, that all three names refer to the same bird, the 
Micropalama himantopus of Baird (General Report, page 726) and of the present 
article. 
EREUNETES Illiger. 
Ereunetes, Illiger, Prod. 1811, 262 ; typus E. petrijicatus, 111. 
Remipalama , Bonaparte, Obs. Wils. 1825, 88. Typus T. semipalmata , Wils. 
Nec syn. 1828. 
Heteropoda , Nuttall, Man. Orn. 1834, ii. 136. Typus idem. Nec Latreillei, 1804, 
fide Gen. Rep. 
Char. Bill variable, about as long as the head, straight, quite stout, both 
mandibles deeply grooved to the considerably expanded, sensitive, vascular 
tip. Wings long, pointed ; secondaries deeply obliquely incised ; tertials nar- 
row and elongated. Tail moderate, doubly emarginate, the central feathers 
pointed and projecting. Tarsus rather longer than middle toe, usually about 
equal to the bill. Bare portion of tibia two-thirds the tarsus. Toes connected 
by a broad basal web, and broadly margined. Hind toe well developed. 
A genus well characterized among the Tringece by the extensive webbing of 
the toes, a feature by which it may be readily distinguished from all other 
genera, except Micropalama. The other differences, however, from that genus 
are very great. The bill is much shorter, being about equal to the head, 
instead of very much longer. The middle toe is nearly equal to the tarsus, 
and the bare portion of the tibia is much less. The colors are very different. 
On the other hand Ereunetes comes very near to Tringa, with which it agrees 
in almost every particular, except that of the semipalmation of the toes. It 
appears to form the natural link between Micropalama and Tringa proper. 
According to Cassin, (Gen. Rep. 724,) the genus Ereunetes of Illiger, is based 
upon a bird which has been proved, by actual examination of the type speci- 
men, to be the Tringa semipalmata , Wils. Ereunetes must therefore supersede 
Remipalama , Bon., and Reteropoda, Nutt., both instituted upon the same 
type. 
