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B. Digitis suhpalmatis. 
B. Toes subpalniated. 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 
(Totauus semipalmatus.) 
To. nigro maculatus, supra cinereus suhttis albus, remigibiis jirimo- 
rihus fascia, secundariis rectricibusque eMimis toto albis. 
Black spotted Sandpiper, above ash-colour, beneath white, the 
primary quills with a fascia, and the secondaries and outer 
tail-feathers entirely white. 
Totanus semipalmatus. Temm. man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 637. 
Scolopax semipalmata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 659. Lath. Lid. 
Orn. 2. 722. 
Semipalmated Snipe. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 380. Lath. Gen. 
Syn. 5. 152. IFils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. 27.pl. In./. 3. 
Inhabits North America: length fourteen inches : 
its beak is dusky : head and neck streaked black and 
white : breast white, varied with round black spots : 
back and wing-coverts cinereous, sprinkled with arrow- 
shaped black spots : primaries dusky, with a white bar : 
secondaries white : belly and sides also white ; the 
latter transversely barred with brown : the middle 
tail-feathers cinereous, barred with black : outer fea- 
thers white : legs dusky : toes semipalmated. Female 
rather larger than the male. 
In the autumn these birds associate in flocks, and 
their plumage becomes pale dun-coloured above, and 
spotted with dark brown, and the tail nearly white. 
They arrive from the north on the shores of the 
middle states in April or May, and from that time to 
