Plate CCCCV. Adult.
Bill as long as the head, greenish-dusky; feet dull yellowish-green;
upper part of head, cheeks, hind part and sides of neck, ash-grey,
streaked with dusky; on the rest of the upper parts the feathers
dusky-brown, margined with pale grey, those on the rump and the upper
tail-coverts blackish-brown; secondary coverts tipped with white;
alula and primary coverts brownish-black, the latter tipped with
white; primary quills greyish-black, with white shafts; secondary
quills more grey; primaries externally edged with white towards the
base, as are the outer secondaries in a fainter degree, as well as
terminally, some of them also having the greater part of the inner web
greyish-white; two middle tail-feathers greyish-black on the inner
web, their outer web and all the other feathers ash-grey; anterior
part of forehead, and a band over the eye greyish-white; lower parts
white.
_Adult_, 6-3/4, 12-1/2.
Exceedingly abundant from Texas to Maine, in winter, spring, and
autumn. Breeds from Labrador northward. Columbia River. Migratory.
Semipalmated Sandpiper, Tringa semipalmata, Wils. Amer. Orn.
v. vii. p. 131.
Tringa semipalmata. Bonap. Syn. p. 316.
Semipalmated Sandpiper, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 136.
Semipalmated Sandpiper, Tringa semipalmata, Aud. Orn. Biog. v.
v. p. 111.