SEMIPALMATED DUNLIN. 107 
This species is a native of St. Domingo, and is 
about the size of a sparrow : it is variegated w^ith 
brown and ferruginous, and the under part of its 
plumage is reddish-white. Its three outer tail-fea- 
thers have white shafts, and its rump is variegated. 
semipalmatp:d dunlin. 
(Pelidna? semipalmata.) 
Pe.? corpore supra fusco,Jerrugvneo alhoquevario, uropygio nigro 
lateralihus albis, tectricibns alarum nigricante scapis albis, su- 
perciliis albis. 
Dunlin with the body above brown, varied with rust-coloured 
white, the rump black, with white sides j the wing-coverts 
dusky with white shafts, the eyebrows white. 
Semipalmated Sandpiper, (Tringa semipalmata.) Wils. Amer. 
Orn. V. \\'\.p. 131. pi. Ixiii. 4. 
Very similar to P. pusilla : its length is six inches : 
beak black, very slightly bent : crown and body above 
dusky brown, the plumage edged with ferruginous 
and tipt with white : tail and wings nearly of a length : 
sides of the rump white : rump and tail-coverts black : 
wing-coverts dusky black, shafted and banded with 
white, much in the manner of the Little Dunlin : 
over the eye is a line of white : lesser coverts tipt 
with white : legs and feet blackish-ash : the irides 
buff-coloured. Both sexes are alike, and vary much 
in size. 
