SANDPIPER. 



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A. — Size of the former. Bill and legs black ; plumage above 

 slightly tinged with rufous; greater wing coverts and second quills 

 bordered with paler rufous, the ends white ; greater quills dusky 

 black ; all the under parts white. 



Inhabits India, and called Begune. — Sir John Anstruther. A 

 similar one in the collection of Gen. Hardwicke, was named Roo- 

 junnee : inhabits also Java. 



52 — SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa semipalmata, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Atner. Orn. vii. pi. 63. f. 4. 



LENGTH six inches ; extent of wing twelve. Bill one inch 

 long, black, very slightly bent ; crown and body above dusky 

 brown, the feathers edged ferruginous, and tipped with white ; tail 

 and wings nearly of a length ; sides of the rump white ; rump and 

 tail coverts black ; quills dusky black, shafted and banded with 

 white, much in the manner of the least Snipe ; over the eye a line 

 of white ; lesser coverts tipped with white ; legs blackish ash, the 

 latter half webbed. 



In the figure of the bird, the forehead, sides of the head, and all 

 beneath, are white. 



This inhabits North America ; is one of the smallest of its race, 

 and not to be confounded with the Little Sandpiper; flies in flocks 

 with the Purres, and some others. They are numerous along the 

 shores of New Jersey, and retire to the south on the approach of 

 cold weather. Some of them are smaller, being no more than five 

 inches and a half in length. 



