SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



SYMPHEMIA SEMIPALHATA INORNATA Brewst. 

 Western Willet. 



General resemblance to the preceding species but the upper parts are paler and not so 

 heavily marked with black ; the breast shows usually more buff color. In winter plumage it 

 resembles the eastern form except in size, the bill usually being longer and the bird somewhat 

 larger. 



Length, 15.60; wing, 8.50; tarsus, 2.55; bill, 2.30 to 2.80. 



Common throughout Western North America extending east to Mississippi 

 Valley and Gulf States, being numerous in Florida wi winter. It breeds from 

 Texas to Manitoba. 



HETERACTITIS INCANUS (Gmet.). 

 Wandering Tattler. 



Hetenirtitis incaniis. 



A faint superciliary stripe of white 

 and loral stripe 'of black; upper plumage, 

 slaty gray, showing a greenish gloss when 

 held in the light ; throat, whitish ; breast, 

 ashy gray, indistinctly burred with dull 

 brown; belly, white; axillars, gray. 



Length, TO.fiO; wing, 7; bill, 1.50; 

 tarsus, 1.30. 



The Wandering Tattler does not 

 occur in Eastern North America, 

 but it ranges from Norton Sound, 

 Alaska, to the Galapagos Islands, 

 and also occurs in the Hawaiian 

 Islands and Kamchatka. It does 

 not seem to be very abundant any- 

 where, and we know but little re- 

 garding its habits. It probably 

 breeds in the far North but the nest 

 and eggs have never as yet been 

 taken. 



