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surface is then, including the tail-coverts, white, each feather 
being banded with blackish, and one of the bands terminal. 
The wings are five and a half inches long; all the coverts 
plain dusky with lighter margins; the under-coverts are 
marbled with blackish and whitish : the primaries are blackish, 
the first with a white shaft; the secondaries are pale dusky, 
edged with whitish. he tail is grey, even, and two inches 
lone; the two middle feathers are acute, projecting beyond the 
others the length of their points; the outer on each side 
is also somewhat longer than the others: all are pale dusky 
with white shafts, the white spreading somewhat along the 
middle, but particularly at the base, where all the feathers but 
the middle ones are white, as well as the two outer also on the 
greater part of their inner vane. The feet are black, and the 
legs very long: the naked space on the tibia one inch and a 
quarter ; the tarsus one and three-quarters long: the middle 
toe is very nearly one inch without the nail, and about as much 
over an inch including it: all the front toes are half-webbed, 
that is, with a membrane connecting them at base. 
YOUNG SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. (Charadrius 
semipalmatus. ) 
PLATE XXV.—Fic. 4. 
See Wilson's American Ornithology, Ring Plover, Charadrius (Tringa by a 
typographical error) hiaticula, vol. ii. p. 360 (Ord’s ed. p. 69), pl. 59, fig. 3; 
for the adult in spring dress, and the history.—Charadrius semipalmatus, 
Nob. Obs. Nom. Wils. sp. 219; Id. Cat. and Syn. Birds U.S. sp. 216 ; Id. 
Specch. Comp. sp. Philad.— Caup, Isis, xii. 1825, p. 1375, t. 14 (the head and 
foot).—Wagler, Syst. Av. i. Charadrius, sp. 23.—Philadelphia Museum. 
Tue credit of first pointing out the curious though obscure 
character which distinguishes the present bird from its very 
near relative the Ch. hiaticula of Kurope is due to Mr Ord; 
and after verifying it in all our American specimens, we feel 
satisfied that the true hzaticula does not inhabit this continent, 
and those authors who have recorded it as American must 
have mistaken the present species for it: we might therefore 
