. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. H'. 254 SCOLOPACID^, SNIPE, ETC. GEN. 206, 207-211. generally dispersed, hut apparently not very common anywhere ; West Indies in winter; U. S. during the migrations; breeds in high latitudes. Auc, V, 271, pi. 334; Nutt., ii,-138, 140, 141; Sw., F. ii, 379, 380, pi. 66; Cass. inBo., 726; Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1861, 174. himantopus. ^
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. H'. 254 SCOLOPACID^, SNIPE, ETC. GEN. 206, 207-211. generally dispersed, hut apparently not very common anywhere ; West Indies in winter; U. S. during the migrations; breeds in high latitudes. Auc, V, 271, pi. 334; Nutt., ii,-138, 140, 141; Sw., F. ii, 379, 380, pi. 66; Cass. inBo., 726; Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1861, 174. himantopus. ^ 206. Genus EREUNETES lUiger. M- Semipalmated SandjnjKr. Peep. Bill, tarsus and middle toe with its / claw, about equal to each other, an inch or less long, but bill very variable, and apt to be shorter — f-J; feet semipahnate, with two evident webs; length 5 J-6J; wing 3^-3|; tail 2, doubly emarginate, the central feathers projecting. Adult in summer: above, variegated with black, bay, and ashy or white, each feather Avith a black field, reddish edge and whitish tip ; rump, and upper tail coverts except the lateral ones, blackish; tail feathers ashy-gra}', the central darker; primaries dusky, the shaft of the first white ; a dusky line from bill to eye, and a white superciliary line; beloAV, pure white, usually rufescent on the breast, and with more or less dusky speckling on the throat, breast and sides, in young birds usually wanting; in winter the upper parts mostly plain ashj^-gray; but in any plumage and under any variation, the species is known by its small size and Fig. 105. semipahnate feet. The extreme variation in the length of the bill is from J to IJ, or 86 per cent, of the average {^). N. Am., everywhere an aljundant and well known little bird, thronging our beaches during the migrations. Tringa semipalmata Wils., vii, 131, pi. 63, f. 4; Nutt., ii, 136; Aud., v, 277, pi. 336; Ereunetes petrijicatus Cass, in Bd. , 724; E. piisillus Coues, Proc. Pliila. Acad. 1861,
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