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Measurements (derived from seven freslily killed birds) : 

 length eleven and a quarter to twelve and a quarter inches ; 

 extent twenty-one and three eighths to twenty-two and one 

 eighth inches ; bill, measured along its top, about one and three 

 sixteenths inches. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER: BARTRAM'S TATTLER: UPLAND 

 SANDPIPER: BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER: BARTRAMIAN TAT- 

 TLER: BARTRAM'S HIGHLAND SNIPE.* Wilson says, Vol. YII., 

 1813 : " This bird being, as far as I can discover, a new species, 

 undescribed by any former author, I have honored it with the 

 name of my very worthy friend [William Bartram], near whose 

 botanic gardens, on the banks of the river SchuylkiU, I first 

 found it." 



This is proverbially a difficult bird to approach ; is found 

 throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains, and is 

 a great favorite among sportsmen and epicures. 



In Maine at Bangor, Rockland, Bath, Portland, and Pine 

 Point, at Portsmouth, ]!^. H., in Massachusetts at Ipswich, Prov- 

 incetown, and West Barnstable, UPLAND PLOVER. 



Concerning its book-name, Bartram's Sandpiper, Mr. E. E. T. 

 Seton, of Manitoba, says in an article on popular names of birds 

 (Auk, July, 1885) : " Ever since Wilson's time this name has been 

 continually thrust into the face of the public, only to be as con- 

 tinually rejected ; Upland Plover it continues to be in the East, 

 and QUAILY on the Assiniboine." 



At Bangor, Me., and in I^qw Jersey at Barnegat, Tuckerton, 

 and Cape May C. H., FIELD PLOVER ; and Dr. Wheaton writes 

 in a report of the birds of Ohio (Columbus, 1879) : " Field Plover, 

 as it is commonly termed with us." 



At Bath and"^ Portland, Me., HIGHLAND PLOVER ; at Ports- 

 mouth, N. II., and Salem, Mass., PASTURE PLOVER ; at Prov- 

 incetown, UPLANDER; in Maynard's Birds of Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, HILL BIRD ; at Is^ew Bedford, Mass., Newport, R. I., 



* So termed by Dr. Woodhouse, Sitgreaves' Expedition, Zuui and Colorado 

 Rivers, 1853. 



