Male, 11, wing, 7.
Only three procured on Sand Key, Florida.
Scolopax Glottis, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 245.
Greenshank, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 68.
Greenshank, Totanus Glottis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 483.
348. 5. Totanus semipalmatus, Lath. Semipalmated Tatler.—Willet. Stone Curlew.
Plate CCLXXIV. Fig. 1. Male in spring. Fig. 2. Female in winter.
Bill nearly a half longer than the head, rather stout, light blue, dusky toward the end; feet long, rather stout, light blue, the basal membranes large. In summer, the head and neck brownish-grey, streaked with blackish-brown; throat and a band from the bill over the eye white; fore part of back and scapulars brownish-grey, variegated with central marks of blackish-brown; third part of back brownish-grey with a gloss of olive; wing-coverts grey, with central lines of brownish-black; primary coverts and primary quills brownish-black, the latter white in their basal half; outer secondaries white, inner like the scapulars; lower wing-coverts and axillar feathers blackish-brown; breast and sides white, the latter transversely undulated with brownish-black; abdomen, and lower and upper tail-coverts white, with a few dusky bars; four middle tail-feathers barred with brownish-black and brownish-grey, the rest pale grey, fading to white on the outer, and all more or less minutely undulated with pale brownish-grey.
Male, 151/2, 273/4. Female, 151/2, 31.
Breeds abundantly in Texas, and along the Atlantic shores to New York, sparingly as far as Massachusetts. Constant resident in the Southern States. Rare in the interior.
Semipalmated Snipe, Scolopax semipalmata, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 27.
Totanus semipalmatus, Semipalmated Tatler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 388.
Semipalmated Snipe or Willet, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 144.
Semipalmated Snipe or Willet, Totanus semipalmatus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 510; v. v. p. 585.