ACTITUEUS BARTRAMIUS, BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER. 503 



mon).— Lawr., Ann. Lye, 1861, 334 (Panama); 186P, 141 (Costa Rica); viii, 1866, 

 294 (New York\— Scl., Ibis, i, 18r)9, 230 (Guatemala).— Drkss., ihhl 1866, 33 

 (Texas).— Cab.,' J. f. O. iv, 418 (CiiLa).— Scl., P. Z. S. 1860, 253 (Orizaba) ; 1866, 

 567 (Ucayali River); 1867, 979 (Peru); 1868, 169 (Venezuela); 1869, 598 (Peru).— 

 Lord, Pr. Roy. Arty. lust, iv, 124 (Colville Bay).— Reixii., Yid. Med. Nat. For. , 

 1870, 38 (Brazil).— BuRM., Reise, 503 (La Plata).— Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 

 1868, 123 (South Carolina, in i<,a-atory).— Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. i, 1868, 501 

 (Iowa).— Dall & Bank., Tr. Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 293 (Fort Yukon).— Turxij., 

 B. E. Pa. 1869, 32 (April to September).- Mayx., Guide, 1870, 141 (Massachu- 

 setts, breeding).— Allen, Bull. M. C. Z. iii, 1872, 182 (Kansas and Colorado). — 

 Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. xv, 1872, 241 (Iowa, breeding).- Sxow, B. Ivans. 1873, 10 

 (Kansas, breeding).— Hart., Br. Birds, 1872, 137 (Great Britain, four instances).— 

 CouES, Key, 1872, 260.— Scl. & ISalv., P. Z. S. 1873, 309 (Peru).— RiDGW., Ann. 

 Lvc. N. Y. X, 1874, 384 (Illinois). 



Tringoides^hartraimus, Gray, Gen. of B. iii, 1849, — .— ^VooDIL Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 99 (Ar- 

 kansas).— Pelz., Orn. Bras. 310 (Brazil). 



Tririgoides (Bartramia) bartramiiis, Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 46, No. 10281. 



Acfitis bartramiiis, SciiL., M. P.-B. ScoJo2)aces, 78. 



Trhif/a loiujkauda, " Bechst., Viig. Deutscbl.— Naual, Nachtragc, pi. 38." 



Jctiiiirus longicaudiifi, Blas., List. B. Eur. ed. Newton, 1862, 18 (Germany and England). 



JJartraniiiis loiigicaudiis, Bp., R. and M. Z. 1857. 



" Totaiiiis mdanopyg'uis et campcstrinf Vieill., Nouv. Diet." 



TotaiiHS rariegatiis, Vieill., Nouv. Diet, vi, 1816, 317 ; Gal. Ois. ii, 1825, 107, pi. 239. 



Bartramia Jaticaitda, Les^s., Traitd d'Orn. 1831, 553. 



Hab.— North America. North to the Yukon. Not observed in the United States 

 west of the Rocky Mountains. Atlantic coast to Nova Scotia. Breeds from the Middle 

 districts northward. Winters in Mexico, West Indies, Central and South America, to 

 Brazil. Casual in Europe (Sweden, iV)76«oh ; Germany, Naum., V. D. viii, 51 ; Gould, 

 B. Eur. pi. 313; Great Britain, Reid, Zool. 1852, 3330; Gurxey, iWrf. 3388; More, i&iV/. 

 1H54, 4254 ; Ballmore, ibid. 186(), 37 ; Cornish Fu. 31 ; Yaisr., Br. Birds, ii, 633 ; Tearle, 

 111. Lond. News, Jan. 20, 1855, with figure ; Morris, Br. Birds, iv, 296 ; See Hurting, I. c). 

 Australia (Gould, B. Aust. Snppl. iv, 1867). 



Lieutenant Warren's Exi)edilion.—4G2d, Fort Pierre; 4633, Fort Union; 4868, Loup 

 Fork ; 5432, Medicine Hill, 6988-91, Loup Fork and Platte River. 



Not obtained by Captain Rayuolds' or by the later Expeditious. 



Bartrain's Tattler, or the "Uplaiul Plover," as it is generally called by 

 sportsmeu, is a bird of Avide and geucral dispersion in the Western 

 Hemisphere, while its casual occurrence in Europe is attested, and it is 

 even stated to have been found in Australia. It iidiabits at diiferent 

 seasons nearly all of North America, and in winter pushes its migra- 

 tion even to Central and Soutli America, as well as into the West Indies. 

 But it has not, to my knowledge, been found in the United States west 

 of the Kocky Mountains. It occurs in summer as far north as the 

 Yukon, though thousands of the birds also breed Avithin the limits of 

 the United States. 



On its presence and movements in the East I have made few oli.'^erva- 

 tions, and know nothing beyond the general items familiar to all sports- 

 men who, with good reason, consider the Upland IMover, or Grass Plover, 

 as a prime game bird, wild and diflicult to secure, best hunted from a 

 carnage, and capital for the table. It is said to breed from the Mid- 

 dh" districts, as in Illinois and IVnnsylvania, northward. The principal 

 shooting is done in August and September, as the birds move south- 

 ward by the end of the latter nu)nth. 



In m()st parts of the West, between the Mississippi and the Kocky 

 ]Mountains, this Tattler, cornmoidy known as the "I'rairie Pigeon," is 

 exceetlingly abundant during the migrations — more so tlian I can sup- 

 pose it to be in settled portions of th(^ country. In Texa.s, I am told, it 

 occurs in Hocks "of thousands." In Kansas, during the month of May, 

 it migrates in great numbers, being scattered over the prairies every- 

 where, and it is so tame tliat it may be destroyed without tlie slightest 

 artilice ; 1 have seen it Just esoai)e being caught witli the crack of a 

 coach-wliip. Passing northward, it enters Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota 



