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Maine ; Wheatox, Bull. Nutt. Club, ii, 1877, p. 83, Ohio. Forest and Stream, Oct. 7, 1880, 

 p. 186, Massachusetts; Skton, Auk, Oct. 1885, p. 336, Ontario; Hrimley, Auk, July, 1892, 

 p. 299, North Carolina; Osgood, Shooting and Fishing, Mar. 26, 1891, p. 432; Palmer, 

 Auk, Oct. 1894, p. 325, Virginia; these being all the records I know of to date. See also 

 Freke, Zoologist, Sept. 1881, p. 376, and for a South American record. Ibis, 1875, p. 332.) 

 The names Kuff and Reeve are botli very old ; of the latter T have found no attempted expla- 

 nation worth citing; of the former Newton has (Diet. p. 798) : " It seems to be at present 

 unknown whether the bird was named from the frill, or the frill from the bird. In the latter 

 case the name should possibly be spelt Rough (c/. ' rough-footed ' as applied to Fowls with 

 feathered legs [and ' rough-legged ' to Hawks in like state], as in 1666 Merrett (Pinax, p. 182) 

 had it." 



BARTRA'ailA. (To Wm. Bartram.) Bill straight, rather .shorter than head, much shorter 

 than tarsus, about efjual to middle toe; culmen a little concave in most of its length; upper 

 mandible grooved | its length. Gape very wide and deep, reaching below eyes. Feathers on 

 side of lower mandible scarcely or not reaching opposite those on upper, and not filling in- 

 terramal space. Tail very long, more tlian ^ the wing, graduated. Wings moderate, pointed. 

 Tibiae denuded for nearly the length of middle toe. Tarsi scutellate before and behind, much 

 longer than middle toe and claw. Outer toe moderately webbed ; inner cleft to base. Size 

 medium; neck and logs long; head small; coloration highly variegated; sexes alike; no 

 great seasonal changes. One species. 



B. longicau'da. (Lat. ?on<7US, long ; caM(/a, tail-) Bartramian Sandpiper. Bartram's 

 Tattler. Upland Sandpiper. Upland Plover. Uplander. Hill-bird. High- 

 land Plover. Field Plover. Pasture Plover. Grass Plover. Prairie Plover. 

 Prairie Snipf,. Prairie Pigeon. Papabote. Quaily. Adult $ 9 '■ Above, blackish, 

 intimately variegated with tawny or whitish edgings of all the feathers ; blackish prevailing 

 on crown and back, the lighter colors on neck and wings; on scapulars and long inner sec- 

 ondaries the black resolved in regular angular bars on a greenish-brown field. Rump and 

 most upper tail-coverts brownish-black, unvaried ; a few of the longer coverts barred to corre- 

 spond with tail. Middle tail-feathers dark ashy-brown, with j)aler or rufescent edges, and 

 irregular or broken bars, throughout; other tail-feathers becoming orange-brown, with numer- 

 ous irregular or broken bars or spots of black ; with one broad, firm, subterminal black bar, 

 and tips white for a distance increasing on successive feathers. Under parts dull soiled white, 

 or tawny-white, rufescence strongest on jugulum and breast, jugulum streaked with blackish, 

 and sides with sharp arrow-heads of the same. Axillars and lining of wings pure white, regu- 

 larly barred with black. Primaries brownisii-bhick ; 1st at least, and sometimes all, barred 

 with white on inner webs; shaft of 1st white, of others brown. Secondaries like jjrimaries, 

 but usually barred with white (tu both webs, inner ones gradually assimilating with back in 

 character of markings. Bill yellow, with black ridge and tip; feet dull yellowish, drying 

 darker; iris dark brown. Length 11.75-12.75; extent 21.50-23.00; wing 6.25-7.00; tail 

 about .3..50; tarsus 1.7.)-2.00; bill, and middle toe and claw, 1.00-1.25. Downy yt«ung : Va- 

 riegated above with white, brown, and black; whitish below; bill bluish with dark tip; legs 

 clay-color. They are 5 or G inches long before any feathers sprout; in first featherings they 

 arc plainer dusky above than the adults, with firmer linflfy margins, less streaked below, niul in 

 general huffier; but they speedily acMjuire a iilumagc hardly different from that of old birds, and 

 it never varies much afterward — I know no other wader so much alike at all ages ami seasons, 

 in both sexes. North America at larire, rare W. of the Rocky Mts.. in profusion on jtrairie.s of 

 the interior, and common eastward; but less abundant than formerly on tlio New England 

 coast ; N. to Nova Scotia and the Yukon. Breeds N. from the middle districts ; winters almost 

 entirely extralimital, i)nshing far into South America ; casual in Kuropo. A fine game binl : but 

 those who only know it when its fears are excited by incessant persecution have little idea what a 



