242 BIRDS OF AL'STRALIA. 



Genus ACTITURUS, Bonaparte. 



An American form, of which the single species is the well- 

 known Trinf/a bartramia of authors, and which is evidently a 

 wide wanderer, examples having been killed in England, on 

 tlie continent of Europe, and in Australia. 



Sp. 514. ACTITURUS BARTRAMIUS. 



Bartram's Sandpiper. 



TriiKja hartramia, Wilson, Am. Orn., vol. ii. p. 353, pi. 59. fig. 2 



(Jardine's Edition). 

 Totanus hartramius, lb. (Ord's Edition), vol. vii. p. 67. 

 Actiturus hartramius, Bonap. Conip. List of Birds of Eur. and N. Am., 



Bartraiiiia laticuuda, Less. Traite d'Orn., p. 553. 



Trinya lonyicauda, IJechst. 



Totanus varieyatus, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., t. ccxxxix. 



melanopygivs, Vieill. 2de Edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., tom. 



vi. p. 401. 

 campestris, Vieill. 2de Edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. tom. vi. 



p. 400. 

 Triny(jides bartramius, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. p. 574, Trinyoides, 



sp. 4. 



I am indebted to the Directors of the Museum at Sydney 

 for the loan of a very fine example of this species, which they 

 kindly permitted to be sent to England for my inspection. 

 It was shot by an old sportsman, during the Snipe season of 

 1848, near the water-reservoir, in the vicinity of Sydney. 

 On examination it was found to be a male, and had the 

 stomach filled with aquatic insects. 



Speaking of this species, Audubon says, " Like all ex- 

 perienced travellers, it appears to accommodate itself to cir- 

 cumstances as regards food, for in Louisiana it feeds on 

 cantharides and other coleopterous insects ; in Massachusetts 

 on grasshoppers, on which, it is said, it soon grows very fat ; 



