FAMILY SCOLOPACIDAE 39$ 



20. Tarsus and toes greenish Pectoral sandpiper, Erolia melanotos, p, 423 



Tarsus and toes black Baird's sandpiper, Erolia bairdii, p. 422 



21. No webs between the toes; tarsus greenish gray or yellowish green. 



Least sandpiper, Erolia minutilla, p. 420 

 A distinct web between the toes ; tarsus black 22 



22. Bill shorter ; in male 17-20 mm., in female 18-22 mm. 



Semipalmated sandpiper, Ereunetes pusillus, p. 417 

 Bill longer ; in male 20.5-23.5, in female 23-28 mm. 



Western sandpiper, Ereunetes mawri, p. 419 



BARTRAMIA LONGICAUDA (Bechstein): Upland Plover; Correlona 



Tringa longicauda Bechstein, in Latham, Allg. Uebers. Vogel, vol. 4, pt. 2, 

 1812, p. 453. (North America.) 



A medium-sized sandpiper, buffy-brown in general color, with 

 small head, and long tail, found in open fields and savannas. 



Description. — Length, 245 to 260 mm. Crown dusky brown to 

 sooty black, with an indefinite central stripe of pale buff; forehead 

 streaked with white and buff; hindneck buffy, narrowly streaked; 

 back and rump sooty black, with feathers on the upper back bordered 

 with buff ; lesser wing coverts sooty black ; middle and greater 

 coverts cinnamon-buff to buffy white, barred lightly with black; 

 tertials brownish gray, barred with black; upper tail coverts black, 

 barred with dull cinnamon-buff and pale buff; central tail feathers 

 brownish gray, barred with black ; outer ones cinnamon-buff, edged 

 with white and barred with black ; primaries and secondaries fuscous, 

 barred narrowly with white ; under surface pale buff, darker on the 

 under tail coverts, with the lower foreneck streaked, and the lower 

 breast marked irregularly and narrowly, with sooty black. 



Birds in fall migration average deeper buff. 



Measurements (from Ridgway, I.e., p. 380). — Males, wing 157-181 

 (163.3), tail 79-92 (75.6), exposed culmen 26-31 (28.2), tarsus 43.5- 

 49 (46.4) mm. 



Females, wing 161-178 (166.6), tail 79-89.5 (84.0), exposed 

 culmen 27.5-32 (29.8), tarsus 47-50.5 (48.5) mm. 



(The average measurement for the tail in females through an 

 error in computation is given by Ridgway as 75.6 mm. in the refer- 

 ence cited above.) 



Passage migrant. Formerly common, but now rather rare; in 

 southward migration mainly from September to November ; in move- 

 ment northward in March and April (one on May 3) . 



