378 BULLETIX 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Genus BARTRAMIA Lesson. 



Bartramia Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831. 553. (Type, by monotypy, B. laticauda 



116330X1= Tringa longicauda Bechstein.) 

 Bartramiusiemendation) Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de ZooL, sor. 2, ix, 1857, 59. 

 Aclidurus Bonaparte, Saggio dist. met. Anim. Vert., 1831, 143. (Type, Tringa 



bartramia Wilson= T. longicauda Bechstein.) 

 Actiturus (emendation) Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 51. 

 Euliga Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds. 1834, 167. (Type, by 



original designation, Totanus bartramius Temminck = Tnngra longicauda 



Bechstein.) 

 Euligia (emendation) Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 86. 



Rather large Tringinae (?) (wing 157-181 mm.) with tail nearly 

 half as long as wing, strongly rounded, or graduated; exposed culmen 

 only about half as Jong as tarsus, the latter less than one-third as 

 long as wing, and nearly twice as long as middle toe without claw, and 

 coloration grayish brown and buffy barred and streaked with black, 

 the under parts largely whitish. 



Bill rehxtively small and slender (about as long as head or slightly 

 shorter), the tip of maxilla slightly but distinctly decurved; exposed 

 culmen more than half as long as tarsus, about as long as middle toe 

 with part of its claw, slightly less than one-fifth as long as wing; nasal 

 groove narrowly cuneate, extending about three-fourths of distance 

 to tip O'f maxiUa, the mandible with a narrow and rather indistinct 

 lateral groove; nostril subbasal, longitudinally linear, in lower edge of 

 nasal fossa; loral antia much anterior to malar antia, forming a not 

 very definite line, near base of nostrils, and very shghtly if at all an- 

 terior to the scarcely divided frontal antia; mental antia about on 

 vertical line with anterior end of nostril. Wing long and pointed, 

 the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal secondaries by a 

 little more than half the length of wing, but projecting only slightly 

 beyond tips of the longest tertials, the latter broad basally and grad- 

 ually tapering to the acuminate tip. Tail nearly half as long as 

 wing, graduated for nearly one-fourth its length, the rectrices (12) 

 slightly narrowed terminally but with broadly rounded tips. Tarsus 

 long and slender, more than one and a half times as long as exposed 

 culmen, less than one-fifth as long as wing, nearly twice as long as 

 middle toe without claw, continuously scutellate anteriorly and 

 posteriorly; bare portion of tibia nearly as long as middle toe with 

 claw, also continuously scutellate before and behind; lateral toes 

 much shorter than middle toe, the outer longer than the inner; a 

 small but distinct web between basal phalanges of outer and middle 

 toes, but none between inner and middle toes. 



Coloration.^XhoYe grayish brown and buffy, streaked and barred 

 with blackish, buff predominating on tail; beneath buffy whitish, the 

 foreneck streaked, the chest and sides with V-shaped markings of 

 blackish. 



