BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER — UPLAND 

 PLOVER 



{Bartramia longicauda) 



Adult — Crown, nape, back, and scapulars, black, feathers edged 

 with buff; hind neck, sides of head, and neck, buff, streaked 

 with dark brown ; lesser wing-coverts, light brown, barred with 

 black and buff; greater coverts, dark brown, barred on inner 

 web, edged and tipped with white ; primaries, dark brown, 

 edged with creamy white ; lower back, rump, and central tail- 

 coverts, black ; rest of coverts, black at base, remainder, buff, 

 barred with black and white ; central feathers of tail, gray, 

 barred with black ; other tail-feathers, buff, with black spots 

 and bar near tip, which is white ; entire under parts, buff, 

 irregularly barred with dark brown on breast and flanks ; lower 

 breast, showing a few V-shaped dark markings ; bill, sooty 

 brown, lighter at base ; legs and feet, olive, tinged with yellow. 

 Length, 12 inches; wing, 6J ; tarsus, 2. Range, eastern North 

 America to Nova Scotia; westward to the Rockies, and north 

 to the Yukon valley. Its southward migration extends to the 

 Argentine Republic and Peru. Occasionally taken in Europe 

 and Australia. 



In all probability more than a few American 

 sportsmen will fail at first glance to recognize 

 the proper name of this choice game-bird. To 

 them it is the " upland plover " and nothing more. 



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