130 ACTITURUS LONGICAUDA. 
ACTITURUS LONGICAUDA (Bechstein). 
UPLAND-PLOVER}1. 
§ 3575. One—North America. From Dr. Brewer, 1851. 
[It would seem that Dr. Brewer considered that he was the first to obtain 
the eggs of this species. He wrote :—‘I have found it breeding in Rhode 
Island near Narragansett Bay and on high grounds near Carlisle, Pa. In the 
latter place the nest was a mere depression in a ploughed field, with only a few 
pieces cf decayed grass-stems to keep the eggs from the damp soil... . Wilson 
and Nuttall were unacquainted with its eggs, and Audubon saw them for the 
first time in my cabinet in 1836.” (Baird, Brewer, and Ridgeway, ‘ Water- 
Birds of North America,’ i. p. 298.) Mr. Audubon, however, writing in 1838 
(Ornithological Biography, iv. pp. 26, 27), speaks of nests which he had 
seen, and describes the eggs very correctly, so that he must have soon repeated 
Dr. Brewer's discovery. | 
[§ 3576. Four.— Missouri Territory.” From Dr. Heermann, 
1861.] 
[§ 3577. Four.—Neosho Falls, Kansas, 13 June, 1861. From 
the Smithsonian Institution, through Prof. Baird, 
1866? 
The accompanying label states that they were obtained as above by 
Mr. B. F. Goss. | 
[§ 3578. Zwo—North America. From Dr. Brewer, before 
1876. | 
* [Another local name for this species in North America is “Grey Plover,” and 
hence possibly the mistake, originating with Wilson (American Ornithology, vii. 
p- 41), and copied by many writers, that Squatarola helvetica breeds in open ground 
from Pennsylvania northward. “Bartram’s Sandpiper” is a common book- 
name (¢f. axted, p. 100, note 1).—Ep. } 
