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SEMIPALM ATED SANDPIPER. 
centred with pale olive, the first two or three rows black ; two 
middle tail-feathers, black; the rest, pale cinereous, edged 
with white ; legs and feet, black ; toes, bordered with a very 
narrow membrane. On dissection, both males and females 
varied in their colours and markings. 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER — TRINGA SEMIPALMATA. 
Plate LXIII. Fig. 4<. 
Peak's Museum, No. 4025. 
* TRINGA SEMIPALMATA.— 
Trlnga semlpalmata. Bonap. Synop. p. 316. 
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 
23d of September, I met with a small flock of these birds in 
Burlington Bay, on Lake Champlain. They are numerous 
along the sea-shores 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 
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