324 
THE SEMIPALMATED SNIPE, OR MILLET. 
breast faintly barred with grey. The upper part of the head, and the hind 
part and sides of the neck are greyish-white, with longitudinal central grey- 
ish-brown markings. The scapulars and inner secondaries are greyish- 
brown, the feathers edged with greyish-white, and lined or mottled with 
dark brown towards the margins ; the smaller wing-coverts plain, the larger 
darker nearer the edge and margined with whitish, as are the other secon- 
daries; the primary quills and their coverts dark brown, the shaft of the 
outer white. The tail is greyish-white, undulated with light brown, the 
four outer feathers on each side with only a series of spots on the outer 
edge, w T hicli on the outermost feathers is almost obliterated. 
Length to end of tail 11 inches, to end of wings 12; wing from flexure 
7 ; tail 3 ; bill along the back 2 T 2 2 , along the edge of lower mandible 2^; 
bare part of tibia lfV ; tarsus 2 T 5 ¥ ; middle toe l x 2 ? , its claw r \. 
THE SEMIPALMATED SNIPE, OR WILLET. 
Totanus semipalmatus, Lath. 
PLATE CCCXLVII. — Male and Female. 
Many individuals of this fine species spend the winter in our Southern 
States, and the extent of its migration northwards is comparatively limited. 
Some are occasionally seen as far eastward as the neighbourhood of Boston, 
and a few have been known to breed not far from New Bedford in Massa- 
chusetts ; but beyond that state the species may be said to be unknown. 
Their propensity to remain at all seasons in the immediate vicinity of the 
coast is such, that they are very seldom met with far inland, even along 
large rivers, on the margins of which they might find the food they usually 
prefer. I once shot one in autumn on the lower part of the Ohio, but it 
was much emaciated, and I concluded that its appearance there was merely 
accidental. From the mouth of the Mississippi to New York it is pretty 
generally found during the breeding season ; but all the individuals betake 
themselves in winter to the shores of Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the 
countries bordering the Mexican Gulf. I have very little doubt that those 
seen by Mr. Say on the banks of the Missouri had accidentally visited that 
