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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



yEGIALITIS SEMIPALMATUS. {Bp.) 



Charadrius semipalmatus. "Bp., Obs. Wils., No. 219 (1825)." — 

 " Kaup., Isis, p. 1375 (1S25)." — Wagl., Syst. Av., No. 23 (1S27). 



— Nutt, Man. Orn., II. p. 24 (1834). — AucL, Orn. Biog., IV. 

 p. 256 (1838). 



sEgialites semipalmata. Bp., List (1838). 



sEgialitis semipalmatus. Cab., J. f. O., 1856, p. 425. — Cass., in 

 Bds. N. Am., p. 694 (1S5S). — Bd., Cass, and Lawr., Bds. N. 

 Am., I. p. 694 (1870). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 14S (1880). 



— Cones, Key N. Am. Bds., p. 602 (1S84). 



ALgialeus semipalmatus. Reich., Syst. Av., pi. xviii. (1853). — 

 Gnndl., Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., Tomo VII. p. 384 (1878). 



Charadrius hiaticula. Ord., ed. Wils., VII. p. 69 (1825). 



sEgialitis semipalmata. Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., N. Am. W. Bds., 

 I. p. 154 (1S84). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Bill short and stont, of an orange-yellow 

 color, tipped with black ; legs, yellowish ; toes, semipalmate ; above, 

 grayish brown, with coronal and pectoral bars of dark brown ; 

 eyelids, orange. 



Length 6.75; wing 4.50; tail 2.35; tarsus .80; bill .40. 



This Plover is a winter visitant, and apparently not common. 

 A single specimen was taken at Puerto Plata in December. 



