SNIPE AND SANDPIPERS: Family Scolofacidae [ 15 1 ] 



be found in all the coast counties. Our earliest spring date is April 1.9 

 (Clatsop County); our latest, May 17 (Tillamook County); and in the 

 fall our records range from July 2.0 (Lincoln County), to September n 

 (Tillamook County). There are no records for the interior of the State. 

 The Hudsonian Curlew is less brown than the Long-billed Curlew, has 

 a much shorter bill, and in general is smaller. The occasional individual 

 Long-billed Curlew associated with it on the coast can be easily picked 

 from the flocks by the much longer bill. On the beaches the birds are 

 rather quiet and shy, having been disturbed so much that they are usually 

 difficult to approach except at the end of long migratory flights when 

 they are sometimes so near exhaustion as to be utterly indifferent to 

 human beings. Towering far above the usually abundant smaller shore 

 birds, they seem like giants stalking about among crowds of pygmies, 

 their leg movements appearing deliberate and clumsy in comparison to 

 the twinkling feet of their small cousins. 



Upland Plover: 



Bartramia longicauda (Bech stein) 



DESCRIPTION. "Tail long and graduated, the end reaching well beyond tips of 

 folded wings; base of toes webbed only between outer and middle. Adults: rump 

 black, rest of upper parts dusky, or greenish black, scalloped and streaked with buff; 

 crown blackish, with a median line of light buff; sides and lower surface of wing 

 barred with black and white; throat streaked and chest marked with dusky; chin 

 and belly white." (Bailey) Downy young: "In the downy young upland plover, 

 the crown, back, and rump are prettily variegated, marbled, or mottled, with black 

 'wood brown,' 'pinkish buff,' and white, with no definite pattern. The sides of 

 the head and the entire under parts are pale buffer buffy white, whitest on the belly 

 and throat. A narrow, median frontal stripe and a few spots on the sides of the 

 head are black." (Bent) Si^e: "Length ii.oo-ix.75, wing 6.50-7.00, bill 1.10-1.15, 

 tarsus i.9o-i.o5, tail 3.40-3.50." (Bailey) Nest: A slight depression, usually 

 somewhat scantily lined with grass. Eggs: 4, cream or buffy, spotted with dark 

 brown (Plate 40, B). 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds from Alaska, southern Mackenzie, Saskatchewan, 

 Manitoba, Minnesota, Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, and Maine south to Connecticut, 

 New Jersey, Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Utah, and southern Oregon. 

 Winters in South America. In Oregon: Very rare summer resident in a few mountain 

 valleys of eastern Oregon. 



MERRILL (1888) reported a pair of Upland Plover seen and the male taken 

 at Fort Klamath on June 4 and a pair with three nearly grown young seen 

 in the same locality July 18, 1887, and stated that Bendire also reported 

 it from Harney Valley. After that time the bird long remained an un- 

 known species to Oregon ornithologists, and Jewett in 19x9 recommended 

 that it be placed on the hypothetical list. Subsequent to his recom- 

 mendation, however, we have obtained additional information. There 

 is a specimen in the Overton Dowell, Jr., collection taken by Dowell on 



