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25th, when the majority go further north. I have several times taken 

 young of this species just able to fly and I have observed the adults 

 throughout the breeding season. I do not think there is the slightest 

 doubt of its breeding in this vicinity." Kumlien and Hollister say: 

 "There is no Wisconsin bird of which we have so diligently and 

 systematically sought the eggs and without success as this Sandpiper. 

 Numbers of times we have found the young just hatched and judging 

 from the actions of the parents, have often been near the eggs." 

 (Birds of Wisconsin, 1903, p. 50.) 



Genus CATOPTROPHORUS Bonap. 

 127. Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (Gmel.). 



WiLLET. 



Symphemia semipalmata (Gmel.), A. O. U. Check List, 1895, p. 94. 



Distr.: Eastern North America, from New Jersey (rarely Maine) 

 to Florida; south in winter to West Indies and eastern South America 

 to Brazil. 



Adult in sinnuier: Upper plumage, gray, streaked on the head 

 with dark brown, and the central portion of many of the feathers has 

 the back blotched with brown; chin, white; throat, white, dotted 



^lia^yfP^' 



Willet. 



with brown; under parts, dull white, the feathers on the sides barred 

 with brown and washed with tawny; axillars, black; bill, bluish, 

 dusky toward end;]'[middle tail feathers, ashy, indistinctly barred with 

 blackish. 



