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pearance they greatly resemble the Stints or Least Snipe; but 

 unless we allow that the same species may sometimes have the 

 toes half-webbed, and sometimes divided to the origin, and this 

 not in one or two solitary instances, but in whole flocks, which 

 would be extraordinary indeed, we cannot avoid classing this 

 as a new and distinct species. 



