BiKDS OF Indiana. 727 



the State. The folloAving measurements are given by Mr. Brewster 

 from "The Auk," 1887, p. 146. Average: wing, 8.11; tail, 3.29; tarsus, 

 2.66; culmen, from feathers, 2.46. Extremes: wing, 7.88-8.26; tail, 

 3-.10-3.50; tarsus, 2.45-2.95; culmen, from feathers, 2.28-2.70. 



55. Qenus BARTRAMIA Lesson. 



^'107. (261). Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.). 



Bartramian Sandpiper. 



Synonyms, Bar tram's Tattler, Praikie Plover, Field Plover, Upi and 

 Plover, Prairie Snipe. 



Above, blackish, with a slight greenish reflection, variegated with 

 tawny and whitish; below, pale tawny of varying shade, bleaching 

 on throat and belly; jugulum, with streaks; breast and sides, with 

 arrow-heads and bars of blackish; axillars and lining of wings, pure 

 white, black barred; quills, blackish; inner webb of outer primary 

 barred with white; tail, varied with taM^ny, black and white, chiefly 

 in bars; bill and legs, pale, former black-tipped. 



Length, 11.00-12.75; wing, 6.50-7.00; bill, 1.10-1.15; tarsus, 1.90- 

 2.05. 



Eange.— America, from Brazil and Peru northward to Alaska and 

 Nova Scotia. Breeds from southern Indiana and Kansas northward. 

 Winters in Mexico and West Indies southward. Accidental in Europe 

 and Australia. 



Nest, on ground, in depression. Eggs, 4; creamy buff or white, 

 marked all over with small spots of umber or reddish brown, most 

 numerous at larger end; 1.79 by 1.30. 



Migrant and summer resident. Over the greater part of southern 

 Indiana it is only known as a very rare migrant. However, throughout 

 the lower Wabash Valley, in some locations, at least, and to the north- 

 ward of that river, when it turns toward the east, it is a summer resi- 

 dent in some numbers, and toward Lake Michigan it is common. 

 It apparently breeds over the original prairie region of the State. Mr. 

 Ridgway reported it breeding in Knox and Gibson counties, and in the 

 former county Mr. Chansler informs me he has found both eggs 

 and young in com fields, after the corn was planted. Mr. Dury re- 

 ports it breeding in several places in northern Indiana, and Mr. Aiken 

 says it breeds commonly in Lake County, where also Mr. H. K. Coale 

 found young able to run July 4, 1881. Mr. L. T. Meyer took a set 

 of four eggs in the Calumet marsh, in Lake County in May. 



