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brown commences at the base of the upper mandiUe, 

 extends half-way to the eye, where it changes to 

 reddish-brown ; upper part of head and the hind 

 neck dusky, the feathers margined with greyish 

 white a few touches of pale reddish-brown on the 

 latter ; throat, fore-neck, breast, and abdomen red- 

 dish-brown ; vent white ; lower tail coverts whit'.', 

 spotted with dusky ; upper plumage blackish-brown, 

 upper tail-coverts barred with black and white; tail 

 pale brown, margined with white ; primary coverts 

 black, tipped with white; secondary coverts grey- 

 ish-brown, margined with white. Young with the 

 upper parts greyish-brown ; the feathers with cen- 

 tral dusky streaks, a narrow line of cinnamon-color 

 towards their margins, which are dull white ; the 

 lower parts ash-grey. Length of adult, ten inches ; 

 wing, six and three-quarters." Giraud. 



UPLAND PLOVER. 



Grey, Grass, or Field Plover. 



Bartram's Sandpiper. 

 Tringd Bartramia, Wils. 



This bird, although scientifically not a plover, is, 

 by its habits, entitled to an appellation that common 

 consent has bestowed upon it. It is found upon the 

 uplands, never frequenting the marshes except by 

 crossing them while migrating, and feeds, not on 

 shell-fish or the innumerable minute insects that live 

 in sand and salt mud, but on the grasshoppers and 

 seeds of the open fields. It never takes the slightest 



