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Bishop reports that this subspecies was a common migrant at Pea Island, Dare 

 County, from July 12 to August 10, 1904. It doubtless occurs regularly on our 

 coast. 



Genus Machetes (Cuv.) 



122. Machetes pugnax (Linn.). Rikf. 



Ad. o' ill sii/iiiiur. — \'cry variable; above and liclow lilack witli [Hirplish refleelions; or rusty 

 barred with purplish, etc.; feathers of l)reast imic-h lengthened to form a shield of rusty, black, or 

 black-and-white feathers; two variously colored tuftson the hind-neck. Ail. cP in irinlir. — .\l)Ove 

 grayish brown; below white; throat and breast grayish; end of tail with remains of blackish bars; 

 ruff alxsent. Ad. 9- — Head, neck and underparts as in winter male; back black, miu-gined with 

 grayish brown; inner wing-feathers barred witli l)lack and grayish brown. L., 12.50; W., 7.00; 

 Tar., 1.70; B., 1..50. (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range. — Ea.slern Hemisphere, straggling now and then to the .\merican coast. 



Range in North Carolina. — Once taken at Kaleigh. 



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Fia. 102. Rci'F. (Fcmnlc or Immatvirc Mule.) 



One female of this European species was taken on Walnut Creek, near Raleigh, 

 by H. H. Brimley, on May 6, 1892. It was, of course, an isolated straggler, and 

 a similar capture is not very likely to occur in the future. 



Genus Bartramia (Less.) 



123. Bartramia longicauda (iJec/ii-7.). Upland Plover : Bartramian Sand- 

 piper. 



Ads. — Head and neck streakeil with black and ochraceou.s-bufT; back and wing-coverts ochra- 

 ceou.s-lniff, barred with black; tertials olive, barred with black and margineil with ochraceous- 

 bulT; primaries fuscous, the outer one luirrvd irilh irhilr: imier tail-feathers brownish gray, outer 

 ones varying from ochraceou.s-bulT to white, all more or li'.ss barred with black; breast and sides 

 washed witli bufTy find streaked or barred with black; bellv white or whitish. Jiir. — Similar, 

 but the ochraceou's-bufT is deeper. L., 11.50; \V., (;..')(); 'l'ar.,'l.(K); B., 1.1."). 



Remarks. — The white l)ars on the outer prinuu-y will always serve to idcntifj' this species. 

 (Chap., Bird,, nf E. N. A.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Virginia northward; winters in southern South America. 



Range in North Carolina. — Inland portions of the State during the migrations; neither common 

 nor regular in its occurrence. 



The Upland Plover or Bartramian Sandjjiijer is a bird of the central States, 

 rather than of the Atlantic slope. It occurs, however, more or le.ss regularly 

 through central North Carolina, and may be regarded as an irregular sjiring 

 migrant. The dry, rolling u])land constitutes its favorite haunts with us, and the 

 species may be looked for generally in April. Its brownish coloration makes it a 



