Western - ^ ftfelpiper ■ *Ereunch?s occidental is) more abundant than the 
Semipalmated (E. pusillus') . — On Two-mile Beach, Cape May County, 
New Jersey, from the ist to the 15th of September, 1895, I found both 
varieties of Ereunetes quite abundant in large flocks ; and out of thirty- 
five specimens taken, twenty were unquestionably occidentalis and fifteen 
pusillus. The birds were all carefully measured and the colors noted. 
The bills of the so-called western variety varied from .87 to t.07, males and 
females, ten measuring over 1.00, and the back of each was uniformly 
colored with a very reddish tinge. 
The bills of the fifteen Semipalmated measured from .63 to .78, and 
were uniformly gray on the back, excepting three which had a slight tinge 
of red. I have never met with the western variety before, that is, to my 
knowledge, for it was only of late that I learned the difference, which is 
probably the excuse of many of 11s who otherwise might have found the 
bird just as common as I did. In the spring migration, and perhaps in 
the fall, I hope to look for it again. 
Mr. Brewster mentions in ‘The Auk ’ (Jan., 1889, p. 69) that a number 
of these birds ( occidentalis ) were taken by Mr. J. C. Cahoon on Monomoy 
Island, Mass., during July, August and September, 1888, and it may 
be that the bird is not nearly so accidental as it has been heretofore 
supposed. — Wm. L. Baily, Philadelphia , Pa. 
