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WILLET. 



Symphemia semipalmata. 



Char. Upper parts brownish olive, spotted and streaked with dusky; 

 wings with large patch of white ; tail-coverts white ; tail ashy, with dark 

 bars ; under parts white, the breast spotted with dusky, the sides washed 

 with buff and barred with dusky. In winter the upper parts are plain 

 ashy gray, and the lower parts dull white, unspotted. Bill dusky; legs 

 bluish gray. Length about i6 inches. 



Nest. Hid amid grass or rushes on a salt meadow or inland marsh, — 

 a slight depression, scantily lined with grass. 



Eggs. 4 ; olive with varying tints from brown to gray, marked with 

 rich brown and lilac; 2.15 X 1.50. 



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 56th parallel of latitude, where, 

 as they pass the summer, they no doubt propagate there, as well 



