382 SHORE BIRDS OF NOVA SCOTIA — GILPIN. 
palmated ; hind toe slight and inserted above the palm. In their 
figures coloured they resemble each other in the well stained neck 
and front, absence of ash and hoariness, and presence of ferrugi- 
nous tints. Thus I must eonclude that I have two species akin 
in all but size, one ranging from five to five and a balf inches, 
the other from seven and one-half to eight inches, both four- 
toed and without webs. Richardson, under the species pusilla, 
may mean the last one as well as Wilson, by the size. 
But amongst these flocks I found a third sand peep, which was 
not only semi-palmated, but different in colour from the others. 
Shot 5th Sept., 1881. Bay of Fundy :-— 
Length, 6 inches. 
Spread of wing, 114 inches. 
Length of tarsus, nearly 1 inch. 
Length of bill, 3} inches. 
Colour on back and top of head, shoulders and wing coverts 
greyish, interspersed with black streaks and spots, spots more on 
back and shoulders; rump black, tail greyish, the upper and 
lower tail coverts nearly as long as the tail. A small white streak 
behind the eye, and spotted line of dusky from bill to eye; 
throat and all beneath white, bill black, legs black with olive 
wash ; toes palmated, inner web smaller than outer. In com- 
paring this species with those shot 20th Sept., and nearly of the 
same dimensions, but not semi-palmated, we find no ferruginous 
tints, rump not so black, breast whiter, and with very slightly 
marked collar, colour of legs more olive. In this specimen the 
shafts of both primaries and secondaries are white, also the tips 
of the wing coverts. But upon the nonsemi-palmated, both 
greater and less, we find the white bar upon the wing, broader, 
and formed not only by the wing ecoverts, but also the primaries 
and secondaries, as it was joined in the white mark. This bird 
has come down to us “ semi-palmatus,” from Hutchins, Wilson, 
Richardson, Nuttall, and Buonaparte; yet Coues gives it as 
pusillas, without giving his reasons. It certainly is the only 
semi-palmatus I have found frequenting the Nova Scotia shores 
in a study of years; is very well marked, which shows more 
when the coloured drawings of each are opposed to each other. 
