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 TRINGA BARTRAMIAN— WILSON. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER 



Bartram Sandpiper, Tringa Bartramia, Wils. Amer. Orn 



Tolanns Bartrairiius, Bonap. Syn. 



Totanus Bartramius, Bartram Tatlrr, Sw. & Rich. 



Bartramian Taller, Nult. Man 



Barlramiaii Sandpiper, Totanus Bariramius, Aud. Orn. Biog. 



Specific Character — Bill slender, rather longer than the head ; 

 tarsi one inch and seven-eighths ; neck rather long, slender ; ax- 

 illars distinctly barred with black and grayish-white ; upper parts 

 dark brown, margined with yellowish-brown ; fore neck and fore 

 part of the breast with arrow-shaped markings ; rest of the lower 

 parts yellowish-white. Adult with the bill slender, yellowish- 

 green, dusky at the tip ; upper part of the head dark brown, with 

 a central yellowish-brown line, the feathers margined with the 

 same color; hind part and sides of the neck yellowish-brown, 

 streaked with dusky ; fore part of the neck and breast paler, with 

 pointed streaks of du.sky ; sides of the body barred with the same ; 

 rest of lower parts yellowish-white; lower wing coverts white, 

 barred with brownish-black ; upper plumage dark brown, mar- 

 gined with yellowish brown, darker on the hind part of the back ; 

 primaries dark brown, coverts the same color ; inner webs of the 

 primaries barred with white, more particularly on the first — the 

 shaft of which is white ; the rest brown, all tipped with white ; se- 

 condaries more broadly tipped with the same ; coverts and scapu- 

 lars dark brown, margined with yellowish-brown and tipped with 

 white ; tail barred with black and yellowish brown, tipped with 

 white ; middle feathers darker, tipped with black. Length ten 

 inches and a half, wing six and five eighths. 



About the middle of August I found this species very plentiful 

 on the Shinnecock hills and on Montauk, especially on the latter — 

 where I met with it soon after leaving Nepeaguc Beach, and was 

 not out of hearing of its wild note until I arrived at the ex- 

 treme point. From the nature of those districts, which are hilly, 

 it is more successfully pursued by the sportsman when on foot, 

 than when hunting over a more level country, as he can better 



