SEMIPALMATEl) SANDPIPER. 
pearance tliey greatly resemble the Stints or Least Snipe; but 
unless we allow that the same species may sometimes have the . 
toes half-webbed, and sometimes divided to the origin, and this 
not in one or two solitary instances, but in whole flocks, which 
would be extraordinary indeed, we cannot avoid classing this 
as a new and distinct species. 
