164 BIRD NAMES. [No. 47. 



narrow, acutely waved bars upon the sides ; markings much 

 less numerous on the lower parts, leaving belly nearly white. 

 Bill dark, paler towards base. Legs and feet dull gray, nails 

 black. 



Winter plumage. Upper parts chiefly pale warm gray nearly 

 or quite free from markings ; under parts wholly white, with the 

 exception of some grayish shading on the lower neck ; tail very 

 pale, with white around its base. Wings, bill, and feet about as 

 in summer. 



Length fifteen and a half to sixteen and a half inches ; ex- 

 tent twenty-seven to thirty inches. Bill two and one eighth to 

 two and five eighths inches ; toes with noticeable webs between 

 them. 



Range : " Temperate North America, south to the West 

 Indies and Brazil" (A. O. U. Check List, 1886). 



SEMIPALMATED TATTLER: SEMIPALMATED SNIPE. 



On the coast of Maine this bird is too infrequently met with 

 to be familiar to the gunners, and, indeed, the species does not 

 occur abundantly anywhere in New England. We soon begin 

 to find it common, however, as we move southward. 



In Massachusetts at Rowley, Ipswich, Salem, Boston mar- 

 kets, North Scituate, Provincetown, North Plymouth, West 

 Barnstable, Chatham, and New Bedford, HUMILITY* (see Nos. 

 48, 50); and Mr. Raymond L. Newcomb tells me of hearing it 

 also called, at Salem, the PIED-WINGED CURLEW. 



At Chatham, Mass, (to some of the gunners at least), at New- 

 port, R. L, and southward along the entire Eastern coast, WILLET, 

 though in Florida it is occasionally termed the BILL -WILLIE. 

 In Lawson's Carolina, 1709, WILL- WILLET; elsewhere in print, 



* On the Massachusetts coast this bird is sometimes confused with the 

 Hudsonian Godwit, No. 61; I have heard, for example, the Godwit called 

 " Humility," and a gentleman tells me of a Willet (No. 47) being sent him from 

 Chatham, labelled with the Godwit's name " Goose-bird." As these occur- 

 rences, however, are simply mistakes, no further reference to them need be 

 made. That gunners note a resemblance between the two species is instanced 

 by the New Jersey name of " Carolina Willet " for the Godwit. 



