WILLET. 
SVMPHEMIA SEMIPALMATA. 
C HAR. Upper parts brownish olive, spotted and streaked with dusky ; 
wings with large patch of white ; tail-coverts white ; tail ashy, with dark 
bars ; under parts white, the breast spotted with dusky, the sides washed 
with buff and barred with dusky. In winter the upper parts aie p ai n 
ashy gray, and the lower parts dull white, unspotted. Bill dusky, legs 
bluish gray. Length about i6 inches. . , , , 
Ms/. Hid amid grass or rushes on a salt meadow or inland marsh, 
a slight depression, scantily lined with grass. 
Eggs. 4 ; olive with varying tints from brown to gray, marked with 
rich brown and lilac; 2.15 X 
The Willet, as this well-known and large species is called, 
inhabits almost every part of the United States, from the coast 
of Florida to the distant shores and saline lakes in the vicinity 
of the Saskatchewan, up to the 56th parallel of latitude, where, 
as they pass the summer, they no doubt propagate there, as well 
