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Genus SYMPHEMIA Rarinesquz. (Page 148, pl. L., fig. 3.) 
Species. 
Largest of the family (except species of the genera Numenius and Limosa), the 
wing measuring 8.00 or more; quills blackish, with nearly the basal half white, 
producing a very conspicuous patch on the spread wing. Summer adult: Above 
brownish gray, irregularly varied with dusky; lower parts white, tinged with 
grayish on fore-neck and buff along sides, the former, with chest, streaked or 
spotted with dusky, the latter barred with the same. Winter plumage: Above plain 
ash-gray ; beneath immaculate white, the fore-neck shaded with grayish. Young: 
Above brownish gray, the feathers margined with buff or pale ochraceous; sides 
much tinged with the same, and finely mottled transversely with grayish. 
Downy young: Above dull grayish white or pale brownish gray, tinged here and 
there with pale brown, coarsely and irregularly marbled with dusky; fore-part 
and sides of forehead plain dull whitish ; sides of head, with entire lower parts, dull 
white, the lores crossed, from eye nearly to bill, by a very distinct line of dusky; 
behind the eye two dusky lines, a shorter and broader one running from eye into 
the dusky mottling of occiput, a longer and narrower one commencing immediately 
beneath, and running back into dusky mottling on nape. Length about 15.00- 
17.00, wing 7.50-9.00, culmen 1.90-2.60, tarsus 1.95-2.85, middle toe 1.35-1.40. Eggs 
2.13 x 1.53, pale buffy, ‘varying from a brownish to a grayish olive shade, spotted 
with various shades of brown (usually rich madder-brown or vandyke), and pur- 
plish gray. Hab. Temperate North America; south, in winter, to West Indies, 
Brazil, etce.; accidental in Hurope............ 258. S. semipalmata (Gm=L.). Willet. 
(18.) 
Gznus HETERACTITIS Sresyzcer. (Page 148, pl. XLV.,, fig. 3.) 
Species. 
Common CHaracters.—Upper parts uniform, or nearly uniform, grayish ; lower 
parts white, more or less extensively barred with dusky in summer, washed with 
gray across chest and sides in winter, the young with gray of sides, etc., faintly 
mottled with whitish. 
a. Nasal groove (measured from loral feathers) two-thirds as long as the exposed 
culmen; upper tail-coverts uniform gray, or with merely a narrow edging 
of whitish. 
Summer adult: Above uniform plumbeous-gray; lower parts white, 
shaded across chest and along sides with plumbeous, the fore-neck 
streaked, and other parts (including belly and lower tail-coverts) barred, 
with dusky. Winter plumage: Similar, but without any bars on lower 
parts. Young: Similar to winter plumage, but scapulars, tertials, and 
upper tail-coverts indistinctly spotted along edges with white, and 
plumbeous of sides, etc., faintly mottled with the same. Length 10.50- 
11.30, wing 6.50-7.30, culmen 1.50-1.60, tarsus 1.25-1.35, middle toe 1.00- 
