BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 817 
Breeding from coast of New Jersey (Seven Mile Beach)—formerly 
from Nova Scotia—southward along Atlantic and Gulf coasts to 
Florida (Old Tampa Bay; Tarpon Springs; Punta Rassa; Caloosa- 
hatchie River, etc.), and Texas (Fort Brown), and in Bahamas 
(Inagua, Andros, Rum Cay, and Long Island); wintering from 
southern Florida and Bahamas southward through West Indies 
(Cuba; Jamaica; Porto Rico; Antigua; Barbados; Grenada) and 
along Gulf and Caribbean coasts of Mexico (Cozumel Island and 
Mérida, Yucatan) and Central America and northern South America 
(Cartagena, Colombia; Margarita Island, Venezuela; Trinidad; Brit- 
ish Guiana) to Brazil (Rio Guapure) and Bolivia; of doubtful or 
uncertain occurrence in Mississippi Valley; accidental in Europe 
(France, 2 records; Sweden; Dalmatia). 
[Scolopax] semipalmata Gmettn, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 659 (New York; based 
on Semipalmated Snipe Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 1785, 469, pl. 20, fig. 2).— 
Latuam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 722.—Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 396. 
Scolopax semi-palmata Witson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 27, pl. 56, fig. 3. 
S{colopax] semipalmata Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 82 
(crit.); Obs. Nom. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [164]. 
Totanus semipalmatus Temminok, Man. d’Orn., ii, 1820, 637; iv, 1840, 412.— 
Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1826, 323.—Werner, Atlas, Grallatores, 
1827, pl. 15.—Lxsson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 551.—Nurtraut, Man. Orn. U. 8. 
and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 144.—AupuBon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1835, 510, part, 
pl. 274; v, 1839, 585, part; Synopsis, 1839, 245, part; Birds Am., 8vo. ed., 
v, 1842, 324, part, pl. 347—Prapopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 369.— 
Giraup, Birds Long Is., 1844, 254.—ScuHieceEt, Rev. Crit., 1844, p. xciv; 
Mus. Pays-Bas, v, no. 27 (Scolopaces), 1864, 76 (Dalmatia) —THIENEMANN, 
Rhea, i, 1846, 126 (Europe).—LemBreyr, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 
1850, 92.—WaLLENGREN, Naumannia, 1854, 256 (Sweden).—Haymonp, 
Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1856, 295 (Franklin Co., Indiana).—Bryant, 
Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1857, 119 (Nova Scotia) —KNEELAND, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1857, 238 (Keweenaw Point, Mich.).—Marrens, Journ. 
fiir Orn., 1859, 218 (Bermudas).—Wiu1s, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 1858 
(1859), 285 (Nova Scotia, breeding).—Bianp, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for 
1858 (1859), 288 (Bermudas).—Newron, Ibis, 1860, 331 (Francel; descr. 
egg).—Liroravp, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 456.—Finscn, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1870, 588 (Trinidad; crit.)—Covzs, Check List, 1873, no. 431, part; Birds 
Northwest, 1874, 494, part—Battey (H.B.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 26 
(Cobb’s Island, Virginia, breeding; habits).—Rerp, Zoologist, 1877, 477 (Ber- 
mudas, July).—Scorr, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 225 (Long Beach, New 
Jersey, formerly breeding).—Maynarp, Birds E. N. Am., 1879, 294.—Cory, 
Birds Bahama Is., 1880, and 2nd. ed., 1890, 160 (Inagua Island, breeding).— 
DateeisH, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 147 (France, 2 records).—Hartine, 
Ibis, 1883, 134.—SzEBouM, Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1887, pp. xxiii, 358. 
T[otanus] semipalmatus KnysEruine and Brastius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. lxxiii, 
211.—Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 573.—Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 
217 (Essex Co., Mass., August). 
[Totanus] semipalmatus Gray, Hand-list, iti, 1871, 46, no. 10278. 
[Totanus] semipalmata Coves, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 258, part. 
Totanus semi-palmatus ViEI1LLoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 403. 
