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SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 
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 appearance they 
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 extraor- 
dinary indeed, we cannot avoid classing this as a new and distinct 
species. 
END OF THE SEVENTH VOLUME. 
