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SYMPHEMIA. 
Symphemia, Rafin. Journ. de Phys. lxxxviii. p. 417 (1819) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. 
p. 405 (1896). 
Symphemia belongs to the group of Sandpipers known as Tattlers (Totanus and the 
allied genera). All these birds have a longer tarsus than the more typical and shorter- 
billed Sandpipers, such as Bartramia, Pavoncella, Tringoides, &c. The bill is slightly 
decurved at the tip, and the legs are rather long, the tarsus being longer than the 
middle toe and claw. The genus is distinguished from its allies by having the outer 
and inner toes joined to the middle one by a web at the base. 
Only a single species is known, S. semipalmata, which breeds in Temperate North 
America, and visits our region, the Antilles, and the northern coasts of South America 
in winter. 
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“1, Symphemia semipalmata. 
Semipalmated Snipe, Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 469, t. 20. fig. 2°. 
Scolopax semipalmaia, Gm. Syst. Nat. 1. p. 659’. 
Symphemia semipalmata, Scl. P.Z.S. 1860, p. 253°; Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 190‘; Ibis, 1866, 
p- 198°; Ibis, 1889, p. 379°; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 377; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1x. 
p. 210°; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 809°; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 47°; 
Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 232"; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. 1. p. 285 *; 
A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 945 Eliiot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, 
p- 181%*; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 405"; Oates, Cat. Egys Brit. Mus. ii. 
p. 41 °°. 
Totanus semipalmatus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 35 
Symphemia semipalmata inornata, Brewster, Auk, iv. p. 145° 
2nd ed. p. 95”. 
Ptil. hiem. Supra cineracea concolor ; 
cineraceis vel sepiariis, albo late marginatis, et fuse 
albis, secundariis albis, his intimis dorso concoloribus ; 
fusco vermiculatim fasciatis; rectricibus cineraceis, 
fuscis ; facie laterali et colli lateribus pallide cineracels ; 
cineraceis ; subalaribus et axillaribus nigricantibus, margine alari albo: 
versus. fusco; pedibus pallide cyaneis, unguibus nigris ; iride brunnea. 
caudee 31, culm. 2°5, tarsi 2°45. (Deser. avis adulte ex Tehuantepec. Mus. nostr.) 
Ptil. estiv. Supra variegata, cinerea, paullo vinaceo tincta, plumis medialiter nigris vel nigro transfasciatis ; 
facie laterali et gutture albis, minute nigro striolatis ; prepectore et pectore summo et laterali rufescenti 
tinctis, nigricanti-brunneo fasciatis. Long. tota circa 13-0, alee 7 -8, culm. 2°3. (Deser. maris adulti ex 
Brownsville, Texas. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Norta America, breeding throughout its 
Grande (Dresser ®), Mazatlan (Grayson ®, Bischof °), Presidio, Tres Marias Is. 
(Forrer 1°), San Blas, Tepic (Richardson *), San Mateo, Tehuantepec (Sumi- 
chrast 1° 45), Orizaba (Sallé*), Merida, Yucatan (Schott *), Cozumel I. (Gawmer® 1) ; 
GuatematA, Chiapam), San José (0. S.4°1°); Honpuras, San Pedro (Whitely '°). 
47* 
8°. 
; A. O. U. Check-]. N. Amer. Birds, 
tectricibus minimis fuscescentioribus, medianis et majoribus dilute 
o vermiculatis; remigibus brunneis, basin versus 
supracaudalibus albis, longioribus pallide cinereis, 
extimis albis fusco vermiculatim fasciatis; loris 
corpore subtus toto albo, lateribus pallide 
rostro pallide cyaneo, apicem 
Long. tota circa 14°5, ale 8-0, 
range 13 19,—Mexico, Matamoros, Boca 
