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SEMIPALMATED SNIPE OR WILLET. 



Tot ANUS semipalmatus, Temm. 



PLATE CCLXXIV. Vol. III. p. 510. 



Female. Length to end of tail 15^ inches, to end of wings 16, to 

 end of claws 18;^ ; wing from flexure 9| ; tail 3| ; bill along the ridge 

 2i'V, along the edge of lower mandible 2^^ ; bare part of tibia 1^^ \ tar- 

 sus 2^^ ; first toe ^^, its 

 claw tV ; second toe 1/j, 

 its claw ^1 ; third toe li^, 

 its claw ^1 ; fourth toe 1 1^2, 

 its claw 1*2 ; extent of 

 wings 30^. 



Mouth very narrow, 

 its width being only 5 

 twelfths ; the two longitu- 

 dinal ridges on the palate 

 remarkably elevated and 

 thin ; two series of papil- 

 lae; posterior aperture of 

 nares linear; anterior part 

 of upper mandible flat, 

 with a median prominent 

 line, and thin projecting 

 edges ; lower mandible 

 deeply grooved. Tongue 

 1 inch 8 twelfths long, 

 trigonal, slender, tapering 

 to a slender horny chan- 

 nelled point ; its base 

 emarginate and papillate. 

 CEsophagus,aic, 6| inches 

 in length, 11 twelfths 

 in width ; proventriculus, 

 he, 10 twelfths broad. Sto- 



