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Bartramia. 



Bill straight, shorter than tarsus ; gape deep, reaching 

 under the eye; tail wedge-shaped. 



Bartramia longicauda (iJechstein). Bartram's Sand- 

 piper. 



^ 9 Above dark Ijrown with butf margins, primaries barred 

 white on inner webs, rump and upper tail coverts black ; chin and 

 abdomen white, breast and flanks buff with pointed or arrow-shaped 

 brown markings, under tail coverts buff. Bill black, yellowish at 

 base. Legs and feet light yellow. Wing 163-180. Tarsus 46-47. 

 Bill 28-31. 



An American breeding species of rare occurrence in Europe. 

 Recorded Malta, Italy, Germany, Holland, Denmark, and about 

 twelve times in British Isles. 



Tringa. 



Bill of variable length, with soft tip; toes free without 

 membrane; hind toe well developed. Small Waders, inhabit- 

 ing sea-coast and damp localities inland ; run swiftly, gregarious 

 except in breeding season; nest a Hned depression; eggs 4, 

 pyriform, greenish grey or buff or dull dark buff blotched or 

 spotted with brown. 



Tringa ferruginea Brunnich. Curlew Sandpiper. Fr. 

 Becasseau cocarli ; Ger. Bogenschniibeliger Strandliiufer ; //a/. 

 Piovanello ; Sived. Spofsniippa. 



Adult summer. Above mottled chestnut and black, upper 

 and under tail coverts white with* black bars ; beneath chestnut 

 with white edges. In winter, above brownish grey with faint 

 dark shaft streaks, upper tail coverts all white ; beneath white, 

 streaked brown on sides of head, throat and chest. Bill decurved, 

 black. Legs and feet black. Wing $ ? 120-132. Tarsus 28-30. 

 Bill 32-41. Young : above brown, with white margins ; beneath 

 white, buff on chest, streaks almost obsolete. 



Breeds.— '^o far as is known, shores of E. Siberia, west to 

 Taimyr Peninsula and Yenisei. Migrates ; occurs on passage 

 on shores, inland lakes, and river banks of Continental Europe and 



