Upland Plover 125 



Xests, according to Goss who found this bird breeding 

 at Lake Como, Wyo, are placed in tussocks of grass, 

 near the water's edge, and are bulky structures ; the eggs 

 are usually four, somewhat pyriform in shape, buffy 

 to greyish-white in colour, spotted and blotched with 

 bro^\^l and purplish; they average 2*10 x 1*55. They 

 doubtless nest in Colorado, thougli nothing is known 

 of their doing so. 



Genus BARTRAMIA. 



Of moderate size — wing G to 7 ; bill short and slender, about equal 

 to the head, but distinctly shorter than the tarsus ; tail long, about 

 half the wing, strongly graduated ; tarsus seutellated, exceeding the 

 middle toe and claw ; outer toe webbed, inner one cleft ; plumage 

 highly variegated, tail barred. 



One species only ; accidental in Europe. 



Upland Plover, or Bartramian Sandpiper. 

 Bartramia longicauda. 



A.O.U. Checklist no 261— Colorado Records— Allen 72, p. 152 ; 

 Allen & Brewster 83, p. 198 ; Drew 85, p. 18 ; Morrison 89, p. 168 ; 

 Cooke 97, p. 67 ; Rockwell 08, p. 160 ; Cary 09, p. 180 ; Hersey & 

 Rockwell 09, p. 116. 



Description. — Above dusky black, variegated with tawny edges to 

 the feathers, especially on the middle of the back and wings ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts plain dusky, central tail-feathers brown 

 banded with darker, lateral ones tawny-brown with irregular bars of 

 dusky and white tips, primaries jalain dusky barred with white on the 

 inner web ; below soiled white, the fore-neck, breast and sides marked 

 with streaks of dusky, becoming bars posteriorly ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts transversely barred with dusky ; iris dark brown, bill 

 yellowish with dusky tips, legs dull yellow. Length 11-0 ; wing 64 ; 

 tail 3-0 ; culmen 1-15 ; tarsus 1-85. 



There is no seasonal change of plumage, and the young are very 

 similar to the adults. 



Distribution. — Breeding from Yukon and Ontario south to Utah, 

 Kansas and Virginia ; wintering far south, chiefly in South America 

 on the Argentine plains. Accidental in Eiirope. 



In Colorado this Sandpiper does not ajjpear to be well known, though 

 it is probably a common siunmer resident on the eastern plains of the 

 State. It does not occxir in the mountains or foothiUs. On the western 



