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SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 
TRL\GJ1 SEMIP.I1LMATJ1. 
[Plate LXIII.— Fig. 4.] 
Peale’s Museum^ No. 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 distinc- 
tion between the two. It arrives and departs with the preceding 
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 l)ill 
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, shaft- 
ed 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 color. 
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