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GENUS EREUNETES. Illiger. 
Bill, tarsus and middle toe with its claw, about equal, but bill very variable and apt 
to be shorter; feet semipalmate; tail doubly emarginate the contral feathers projecting.. 
HREUNETES PUSILLUS (L.) Cass. 
Semipalmated Sandpiper. 
Ereunetes petrificatus, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 369; Reprint, 1861, 11. 
Ereunetes pusillus, WHEATON, Food of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric, Rep. for 1874, 572; Re- 
print, 1875, 12.—LANGDON, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 116; Reprint, 7; Be- 
vised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1, 1879, 182; Reprint, 16. 
Ereuntes (error) pusillus, LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 14. 
Tringa pusillus, LINNXUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 252. 
Ereunetes petrificatus, ILLIGER, Prod., 1811, 262. 
Ereunetes pusillus, CASSIN, Birds N. Am., 1858, 724. 
Adult in summer: above variegated with black, bay and ashy or white, each feather 
with a black-field, reddish edge and whitish tip; rump and upper tail coverts, except 
the lateral ones, blackish ; tail feathers ashy-gray, the central darker ; primaries dusky, 
the shaft of the first white; a dusky line from the bill to the eye, and a white super- 
ciliary line; below, pure white, usually rufescent on the breast, and with more or less: 
dusky speckling on the throat, breast and sides, in young birds usually wanting; in 
winter the upper parts mostly plain ashy-gray; but in any plumage and under any 
variation the species is known by its small size and semipalmated feet. Length, 54-64 
inches ; wing, 44-32; tarsus, and middle toe and claw, about 1; bill variable from 4 to 
1}, averaging, ¢. 
Habitat, the whole of North and Central, and most of South America. West Indies. 
Very common spring and fall migrant in May, August and Sep- 
tember. 
The Semipalmated Sandpiper is a regular migrant in this vicinity, 
though more abundant in the fallthan in spring. They usually appear 
in small flocks of from eight to twenty birds, and frequent the gravelly 
and sandy shores of streams or muddy banks of ponds. They are rather 
more shy than the next species, which they greatly resemble, and with 
which they are usually confounded under the common name of “ Peeps.”” 
The Semipalmated Sandpiper breeds only in high latitudes. The 
eggs are four, measuring about 1.22 by .83. Their ground-color is a vari- 
able shade of drab, dotted and blotched with dark brown. 
Genus TRINGA. Linneeus. 
Bill averaging about as long as the head, never twice as long; toes unwebbed ; hind 
toe present ; tail withvut bars. 
(Sub-genus Aciodromas—Bill, tarsus, and middle toe with claw of about equal length ;: 
tibiza naked below.) 
