» 
BARTRAMIA. 381 
pilei plumis nigris, arenario marginatis; loris et supercilio distincto fulvescenti-albis ; facie laterali, 
preepectore et pectore summo nigro striolatis; genis et gula albis; corpore reliquo subtus albo, hypo- 
chondriis nigro fasciatis, pectoris lateribus nigro triquetrim fasciatis; subalaribus et axillaribus albis, 
nigro transfasciatis: rostro flavicanti-viridi, basin versus flavo; pedibus pallide flavicanti-griseis ; iride 
coryllina. Long. tota circa 9:0, ale 6-4, caude 3:2, culm. 1:2, tarsi 1-8. (Descr. maris adulti ex Pinal, 
Puebla. Mus. nostr.) 
Ptil. estiv. ptilosi hiemali similis, sed nigricantior, marginibus plumarum pallidis obsoletioribus, preepectore 
et pectore summo fasciis triquetris et cordiformibus notatis. (Descr. maris adulti ex Duefias. Mus. 
nostr.) 
Hab. Nortu America, mainly east of the Rocky Mountains, north to Nova Scotia and 
Alaska, breeding throughout most of its range 9—Muxico, Valley of Mexico 
(Herrera® ®), Guanajuato (Dugés??), Zacatecas, Chapala, Jalisco (Richardson 11), 
Cacoprieto, Tapanatepec, Orizaba (Swmichrast?*), Vera Cruz (Sallé**), Pinal, 
Puebla (F. D. G. & Ferrari-Perez "!), Las Vegas, Jalapa (Ferrari-Perez *); Brrrisi 
Honpvuras, Turneff I. (O. 8.24); Guaremana, Duefias (111%), Sakluk! (0. S.); 
Honpuras, Ruatan I., Bay of Honduras (Gawmer 1! 4); Nicaragua, Rio Escondido 
(Richmond *); Costa Rica (Carmiol°), Alajuela (Zeledon *), San José ( Cherrie*) ; 
Panama (M‘Leannan "17 19), Divala, Chiriqui (Brown ”).—SourH AMERICA in 
winter, to Amazonia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay '. 
Bartram’s Sandpiper resembles the true Plovers in many of its habits, and is one of 
the most interesting of all the Waders, being an inhabitant of the plains of North 
America, “rarely seen near water, in which it seldom, if ever, wades, frequenting 
grassy fields and prairie-like stretches.” 1°. It breeds throughout the greater part of 
its North-American habitat east of the Rocky Mountains, and is seldom found on the 
Pacific coast. In Central America the species is only a winter visitor, passing through 
the Valley of Mexico in August and September®. In Costa Rica, Mr. Cherrie says 
that it was tolerably common at San José from about the 5th of September to the 14th 
of November?; and Mr. Richmond noticed the species on the Rio Escondido in 
Nicaragua on the 26th of the latter month®. In Guatemala a flock consisting of 
some eighteen or twenty individuals arrived at Duenas on their return journey in the 
beginning of April. They frequented the open dry savannas, rather than the marshy 
pools, and fully justified the appellation of “‘ Field-Plovers ” 1°. 
B. longicauda, though seen at times in considerable numbers on the Atlantic coast 
of North America, is, according to Mr. Elliot, never met with in the great flocks 
observed in the Western States, like Kansas, and to the southward, more especially 
in Texas, where the bird congregates sometimes in thousands. As a rule, it is shy, 
except in the breeding-season, or in places where it has not been molested. He 
writes :——“‘ It associates often at this time with the Golden Plover and others of the 
family found in similar localities, and may be seen scattered in groups or singly over 
the prairies” '°. 
