SCOLOPACIN^. TOTANUS. 
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condaries greyish-brown, edged with greyish-white, and lined or mot- 
tled with dark brown towards the margins ; smaller wing-coverts plain 
brown, the larger darker near the edge, and margined with whitish, as 
are the outer secondaries ; primary quills and coverts dark brown, the 
shaft of the outer white ; tail greyish- white, undulated with light 
brown, the outer four feathers on each side with only a series of spots 
on the outer edge, which on the outermost feathers is almost obli- 
terated. 
Male, 11, wing, 7. 
Only three procured on Sand Key, Florida. 
Scolopax Glottis, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p, 245. 
Greenshank, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p, 68. 
Greenshank, Totanus Glottis, Aud, Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 483. 
348. 5. Totanus semipalmatus, Lath. SemipalmatedTatler. 
— Willet. Stone Curlew. 
Plate CCLXXIV. Fig. 1. Male in spring. Fig. 2. Female in winter. 
Bill nearly a half longer than the head, rather stout, light blue, dusky 
toward the end ; feet long, rather stout, light blue, the basal mem- 
branes large. In summer, the head and neck brownish-grey, streaked 
with blackish-brown ; throat and a band from the bill over the eye 
white ; fore part of backhand scapulars brownish-grey, variegated with 
central marks of blackish-brown ; third part of back brownish-grey 
with a gloss of olive ; wing-coverts grey, with central lines of brown- 
ish-black ; primary coverts and primary quills brownish-black, the 
latter white in their basal half ; outer secondaries white, inner like 
the scapulars ; lower wing-coverts and axillar feathers blackish- 
brown ; breast and sides white, the latter transversely undulated with 
brownish-black ; abdomen, and lower and upper tail-coverts white, 
with a few dusky bars ; four middle tail-feathers barred with brown- 
ish-black and brownish-grey, the rest pale grey, fading to white on 
the outer, and all more or less minutely undulated with pale brownish- 
grey. 
Male, 16^, 27f. Female, 16L 31. 
Breeds abundantly in Texas, and along tfie Atlantic shores to New 
York, sparingly as far as Massachusetts. Constant resident in the 
Southern States. Rare in the interior. 
Semipalmated Snipe, Scolopax semipalmata, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 27. 
Totanus semipalmatus, Semipalmated Tatler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. 
V. ii. p. 388. 
Semipalmated Snipe or Willet, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 144. 
Semipalmated Snipe or Willet, Totanus semipalmatus, Aun. Om. Biog. v. iii. 
p. 510 ; V. V. p. 585. 
