SEMIPALMATED SNIPE, or WILLET. 



(Totamissemipalmafiis,Ti:uM. Bo>"ap. Richard. North. Zool. ii. p. 

 388. pi. 67. Scolopax semipalmata, Gmel. Lath. Wilson, vii. p. 

 27. pi. 56. fig. 3. [summer dress.] Glottis semipalmata, Nils. Orn. 

 Suec. ii. p. 55. Phil. Museum, No. 3942.) 



Sp. Charact. — Rump white; lower wing coverts black ; quills 

 white for two-thirds of their length from the base. — Summer plum- 

 age, pale brownish, varied with black and whitish; beneath white, 

 spotted with dusky. Winter dress, ashy-bro^vn, beneath princi- 

 pally white. 



The Willet, as this well known and large species is called, 

 inhabits almost every part of the United States, from the 

 coast of Florida to the distant shores and saline lakes in 

 the vicinity of the Saskatchewan, up to the 5(3th parallel of 

 latitude, where, as they pass the summer, they no doubt 

 propagate there, as well as in the Middle States of the 

 Union. Their appearance in the north of Europe, is 

 merely accidental, like the visit of the RuiT in America, 

 which has, indeed, no better claim in our Fauna, than that 

 of the Willet in Europe, both being stragglers from their 



