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A. — Length nineteen inches. Bill as in the other; head, neck, 

 and breast, pale ash-colour ; crown of the head mottled with brown ; 

 back brown, the ends of the feathers darker; wing coverts brown, 

 but the lesser, at the bend of the wing, dusky; second quills pale 

 ash, some of them nearly white ; quills dusky black ; under parts 

 from the breast white; rump and upper tail coverts white, and 

 falling over the base half of the tail, which is dusky black ; legs 

 and bare part above the joint, together six inches, the feathered 

 part only one inch ; between the outer and middle toe a slight 

 membrane. 



Inhabits India. — Found at Cawnpore in October, where it is 

 called Kuhg.— Gen. Hardwicke. It resembles the Asiatic Species 

 in shape and size, and may probably differ merely in age or sex. 



36.— SEMIPALMATED SNIPE. 



Scolopax semipalmata, Ind. Orn. ii. 722. Gm. Lin. i. 659. 

 Totanus semipalraatus, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. 637. 



Semi palm ated Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 152. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 380. Amer. Orn. vii. p. 27. 

 pi. 56. f. 3. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill two inches long, dusky ; head 

 and neck streaked black and white; breast white, marked with 

 round black spots ; belly and sides white, the last crossed with 

 brown bars ; back and wing coverts cinereous, with great sagittal 

 spots of black ; primaries dusky, crossed with a white bar; secon- 

 daries white; the middle tail feathers cinereous, barred with black, 

 outmost white; legs dusky; toes semipalmated. The female is 

 somewhat larger than the male, but scarcely differs in plumage. 



Inhabits New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, on 

 the shores of which it breeds in great numbers ; its common name 

 Willet. It arrives from the south, about the 20th of April, and 

 from that time to the end of July, incessant cries of Pill-will-willet 

 are heard along the marshes, at the distance of more than half a mile. 

 About the 20th of May they begin to lay ; the nest made on the 



