144 A MANUAL OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 
Genus BARTRAMIA. 
Bartramia Lesson, Traité d’Orn., livr. 7, p. 553, April 9th, 1831. Type (by monotypy): 
B. laticauda = Tringa longicauda Bechstein. 
Actidurus Bonaparte, Giornale Arcadico (Roma), Vol. LII., p. 208, 1831, 1832. Type 
(by monotypy) : Tringa longicauda Bechstein. New name for Bartramia Less. 
Euliga Nuttall, Man. of Ornith., Vol. Il., p. 167, 1834. Type (by original designation) : 
Tringa bartramia Wilson = Tringa longicauda Bechstein. 
Medium Totanine Waders with short bills, long wings, long tails, long legs, and 
long toes. 
The culmen is short and straight, the tip slightly swollen and decurved ; the 
groove in the upper mandible extends for more than half the length of the culmen, 
which is scarcely longer than the middle toe and claw and less than two-thirds the 
length of the metatarsus. 
The wings are very long, with the first primary longest. The tail is very long 
and wedge shaped, more than half the length of the wing, and three times the length 
of the culmen. The metatarsus is more than half the length of the tail but less than 
twice the middle toe ; the exposed portion of the tibia is more than half the length 
of the metatarsus and equal to the middle toe. Tarsus regularly scutellated before 
and behind. 
The toes are long, and the middle toe is more than half the length of the meta- 
tarsus and little less than the culmen ; the webbing between the toes is as in the 
preceding Totanoid genera. A long hind-toe is present. 
1oo. Bartramia longicauda.—LONG-TAILED SANDPIPER. 
Gould, Suppl., pl. 77 (pt. 1v.), Dee. Ist, 1867. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 3, pl. 157, Aug. 18th, 
1913. 
Tringa longicauda Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. Vogel, p. 453, (pref. April 12th, 1810), 1811: 
North America. 
Tringa bartramia Wilson, Amer. Ornith, Vol. VII., p. 63, pl. 59, fig. 2, 1813 (pref. March Ist) : 
Pennsylvania, North America. 
Totanus variegatus Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. VI., p. 397, Dec. 14th, 1816: 
South America. 
Totanus campestris Vieillot, 7b., p. 400: Paraguay, South America. 
Totanus melanopygius Vieillot, 2b., p. 401: North America. 
Bartramia laticauda Lesson, Traité d’Orn., livr. 7, p. 553, April 9th, 1831. New name for 
Tringa bartramia Wilson. 
DistTRIBUTION.—No Australian-shot specimens preserved, and record very doubtful. 
Adult male——General colour above black, the feathers everywhere margined 
with sandy-rufous and white ; head black with sandy-rufous edges to the feathers ; 
hind-neck rufous with dark brown centres to the feathers, giving a streaked appear- 
ance ; mantle and back black, the feathers edged with rufous ; lower back, middle 
upper tail-coverts and rump uniform black, the lateral upper tail-coverts barred with 
buff and black ; lesser wing-coverts dark brown fringed with sandy-rufous ; greater 
coverts olive-brown barred with darker brown, fringed on the sides with sandy- 
rufous and tipped with white ; bastard-wing blackish, tipped with white ; primary- 
coverts black with pale edges to some of the inner ones ; primary-quills dark brown 
on the outer webs, the inner webs barred with white ; first primary mottled and 
barred with brown and white, shaft also white ; inner primaries barred with pale 
and dark brown, fringed and tipped with white, the secondaries similarly coloured ; 
the long innermost secondaries like the back; middle tail-feathers greyish-brown 
tinged with rufous and barred with black, becoming rufous on the outer feathers 
which are also barred with black and broadly tipped with white ; throat white ; 
sides of face, lower throat, and upper-breast sandy-buff, with narrow brown streaks ; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts buffy-white; sides of body sandy-rufous barred 
