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1908, on ^Montague Island, Prince William Sound, Alagka, under the 

 following circumstances : 



I found the bird iu a park on the mountain side at an altitude of 400 

 feet. As soon as I appeared on a ridge several hundred yards from him, he 

 flew into a tree and began to ' ' tattle. " As I came nearer he flew out to 

 meet me, scolding as he came. He flew around above me and then went back 

 and lit on the very tip of a tree where he bobbed up and down. 



A half-grown young bird was obtained on this same island five 

 days later. The breeding range has been defined upon the basis of 

 such finds as the ones just cited ; nests or eggs, if known to white men, 

 have not yet been recorded in current scientific literature. 



The food of the Wandering Tattler consists of small animals found 

 along the tide line or in kelp, chiefly crustaceans and small mollusks. 

 It is probable that marine worms and other forms found in such 

 localities are also taken. 



In California the Wandering Tattler is relatively safe from the 

 hunter, and its numbers will probably remain unchanged longer than 

 those of most of our other shore birds. This is due to the solitary 

 habits of the species and its tendency to inhabit rocky, more or less 

 inaccessible shores, and especially, the coastal islands. Its breeding 

 grounds, moreover, are far removed from human influences, and are 

 not likely to be encroached upon by settlement in the near future. 



Upland Plover 



Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein) 



Other names — Field Plover; Bartramian Sandpiper. 



Descriptiox — Adults, hoth sexes: Whole upper surface except rump, with 

 mixed pattern of dark, almost blackish, brown, and yellowish brown; this 

 pattern inclines to streaking on head and neck and to barring on back, wings 

 and tail; sides of head and neck light buff, streaked with blackish; chin white; 

 iris "dark hazel"; bill "yellowish-green," tip "dusky," edges at base 

 "yellow" (Audubon, 1842, V, p. 252); rump uniform blackish brown, save that 

 outermost feathers are marked with white; tail feathers (except middle pair) 

 dull buflf, broadly tipped with white, and crossed by irregular bars of black; 

 primaries blackish brown, the outermost ones barred with white on inner 

 webs; secondaries variegated like back, and with white margins; lining of 

 wing and axillars white, sharply barred with dark brown; edge of wing white; 

 throat and foreneek buff narrowly streaked with dark brown; breast, sides and 

 flanks light buff sharply barred with dark brown; rest of lower surface white; 

 feet and legs "light yellowish-grey," toes "darker," claws "brownish-black" 

 (Audubon, loc. cit.). Total length (both sexes) "11.00-12.75" inches (279- 

 324 mm); folded wing "6.50-7.00" (165-178); bill along culmen "1.10-1.15" 

 (27.9-29.2); tarsus "1.90-2.05" (48.3-52.1) (Ridgway, 1900, p. 169). Juvenile 

 plumage: Top and back of head brownish black with a median stripe of pinkish 

 cinnamon; stripe across forehead running over eye, patch behind eye, and chin 



