SPECIES 4. TRINGA SEMIPALMATA. 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 
[Plate LXIII.— Fig. 4.] 
Peai.e’s Museum, t/Vo. 4023. 
This is one of the smallest of its tribe; and seems to have 
been entirely overlooked, or confounded with another which 
it much resembles ( Tringa pusilla,) and with whom it is often 
found associated. 
Its half- webbed feet, however, are sufficient marks of dis- 
tinction between the two. It arrives and departs with the pre- 
ceding species; flies in flocks with the Stints, Purres, and a 
few others; and is sometimes seen at a considerable distance 
from the sea, on the sandy shores of our fresh water lakes. On 
the twenty-third of September, I met with a small flock of these 
birds in Burlington bay, on lake Champlain. They are numerous 
along the seashores of New Jersey; but retire to the south on 
the approach of cold weather. 
This species is six inches long, and twelve in extent; the bill 
is black, an inch long, and 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 quills dusky 
black, shafted and banded with white, much in the manner of 
the Least Snipe; over the eye a line of white; lesser coverts tipt 
with white; legs and feet blackish ash, the latter half- webbed. 
Males and females alike in colour. 
These birds varied greatly in their size, some being scarcely 
five inches and a half in length, and the bill not more than three 
quarters; others measured nearly seven inches in the whole 
length, and the bill upwards of an inch. In their general ap- 
