BIRDS OF NORTH AXD MIDDLE AMERICA, ' 379 



Range. — North America, migrating to South America. (Mono- 

 typic.) 



BARTRAMIA LONGICAUDA (Bechstein). 



UPLAND PLOVER. 



Adults in summer (sexes ahke). — Pileum dusky grayish brown or 

 dull sooty blackish, divided by a broken or interrupted (sometimes 

 indistinct) median line of pale buffy and more or less streaked with 

 the same, the forehead distinctly streaked with buffy and dusky; 

 nape pale buffy, passing into dull grayish buffy on lower hindneck, 

 narrowly streaked with blackish, the hindneck more broadly streaked 

 with dusky ; interscapulars sooty blackish centrally, broadly margined 

 with pale buffy and pale buffy grayish brown ; scapulars grayish brown 

 passing into pale buffy on margins and obliquely barred with black- 

 ish; anterior lesser wing-coverts grayish brown narrowly margined 

 with pale dull buffy, the remaining coverts pale grayish brown passing 

 into pale buffy brown tipped or terminally margined (broadly) with 

 pale buffy and rather distantly barred with dusky; tertials hght 

 grayish brown passing into pale buffy or dull buft'y whitish on edges 

 and obhqueh" barred with blackish; primary coverts dusky; pri- 

 maries dark grayish brown or dusky, the proximal quills, margined 

 terminally with white, broadly on outer webs, where, on three or 

 four innermost quills more or less spotted with white; rump and 

 upper tail'Coverts plain dusky or sooty blackish, the longer upper 

 tail-coverts more or less margined and spotted on terminal portion 

 with light buffy grayish brown and paJe buffy, the lateral ones with 

 outer webs largel}" dull buffy white and with more or less of the same 

 on terminal portion of inner webs; tail passing from grayish brown 

 (indistinctly paler on edges) on middle pair of rectrices through 

 pinkish buff or light pinkish cinnamon into pale pinkish buff on outer- 

 most pair, on which the outer web and broad terminal space on inner* 

 web are white— the four outermost (on each side) broadl}^ tipped with 

 white and with a broad, more or less sagittate, subtcrminal bar of 

 black, the four middle rectrices obliquely barred (on both webs) with 

 black, the latertil ones with much fewer and less regular black bars and 

 other markings; sides of head, posteriorly, sides of neck, foreneck, 

 and chest pale buff, narrowly streaked with black; loral, suborbital, 

 and malar regions, chin, throat, and under parts of body dull buffy 

 white, immaculate on malar region, chin, throat lower breast (except 

 laterally), abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts, the upper 

 breast and sides of lower breast with V-shaped markings of black, the 

 sides and flanks with bars (somewhat V-shaped anteriorly) of the 

 same; axillars white regularly barred with slate-blackish, the under 

 wing-coverts white, spotted and barred with the same; maxilla black- 

 ish edged (except terminally) with light brownish or dull yellowish; 



