Identifier: annualreport6331909newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^ 24, 1883, on Shinnecock bay, L. I. (Auk, i: 32-33),and another presuinabh from Long Island, which was sent to Mr Butcherb\ mail, June 9, 1891. The Curlew sandpiper associates with dunlins on the shores and mudflats, and in appearance resembles a diminutive Knot with a long decurvedbill (Seebohm). BIRDS OF NEW YORK 317
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Cvirlew sandpiper. Erolia f erruginea (Briinnich). From Audubon, Birds of America. About i nat. size Ereunetes pusillus (Linnaeus)Semipalmated Sandpiper Plate 35 Tringa pusilla Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 1766. i-252Heteropoda semipalmata DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 236, fig. 195Ereunetes pusilla A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 246 ereunetes, Gr. epewT^rrJs, searcher or prober; pusillus, Lat. small Description. Toes with basal membrane, that between the middleand outer extending to the second joint, and all the toes slightly margined;bill straight, much wider than in Tringa minutilla and enlargedat the tip; tail doubly emarginate. Summer: Coloration similar to theLeast sandpiper in pattern, but the edgings of the upper feathers palebuffy cinnamon. Winter: Upper parts plain grayish with dark shaftstreaks, breast mostly without streaks. Young: Marked with buffy andgrayish white and the chest tinged with buffy. Length 5.5-6.55 inches; extent 11.5-12.75; wing 3.25-3.95; tail

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