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Willet ( Sympkemia semipalmata). — A single specimen was taken 
Aug. 22. This bird has become very rare in this vicinity of late years. 
The Willet in Central New York.— On August 20, 1913, I observed 
two large shore birds on the beach at the east end of Oneida Lake in the 
town of Verona, N. Y. From a distance I took them to be Greater Yellow- 
legs, but on the 25th, two birds, undoubtedly these same two came much 
nearer and were identified as Willets ( Catoptrophorus sevripalmatus semi- 
palmatus.) They were very tame, permitting approach within less than 
one hundred feet, when their marked plumage was very much in evidence. 
My two sons and myself watched them for probably an hour with our 
naked eyes and also with the field glasses, drew a diagram of their markings 
and wrote a description from life. We tried to take photographs but in 
this we failed and pressing for a nearer view, finally caused the birds to 
move away. We saw them again the next day but that was the last of 
them. Twenty-five years’ observation on this beach has never shown me 
one before and I believe them to be very rare here.— Egbekt Bagg, Utica, 
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