FAMILY SCOLOPACID.E. -SNIPE, SANDPIPERS, CURLEWS, ETC. 



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' f Group 5. Wing, 6 75 to 9 inches long. 



Section 1. Toes, four, with more or less web; bill, curved 

 upwards or straight ; bill, over 2.60. 



Axillars, dark gray, or sooty 

 gray ; belly, grayish white; first 

 primary, dark slaty brown with 

 white shaft; bill, curved upward; 

 upper tail coverts mostly white. 

 Li nxixit Ini'imifitii'ii. 



Hudsonian Qodwit. 



See No. 204. 



niia eemipalinata. 



Axillars, smoky black; belly, white; termi- 

 nal third of outer primary, black; the rest, white; 

 bill, nearly straight. 



Hijmi>lii'in'in scmipalmata. Willet. 

 >irni/>]/rmia sfmijinJ nintu iiiuruiiti/. 



Western Willet. 

 See No*. 211 aud 212. 



Hudsonian Godwit. 



* For ilircrt.ions for measurement, sec page 9. 



