SHORE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



GENUS BARTRAMIA LESS. 



BARTRAHIA LONGICAUDA (Bechst.) . 

 Bartram's Sandpiper. Upland Plover. Field Plover. 



Summer pluinaye : Upper plumage, dark brown, or brownish black; the 

 feathers edged with pale buff ; upper throat, white ; lower throat, pale buff 

 lined with dark brown; breast, pale buff with arrow-shaped markings of dark 

 brown : belly, pale butt*; axillars banded with dark slaty brown and white : 

 outer primaries, white, banded with brown on the inner webs. 



Winter plumat/e : Similar but paler. 



Length, 11.75; wing, 6.60; tarsus, 1.90; bill, 1.20. 



^^^ The Bartram's Sand- 



piper, or Upland Plover, 

 ranges in North America, 

 from Alaska to Nova 

 Scotia, and south to South 

 America, hut mainly east 

 of the Rocky mountains. 

 It is not very common 

 anywhere on the Atlantic 

 coast nowadays, although 

 at one time it was an abun- 

 dant species on our hills 

 during the migrations. A 

 good diagnostic character 

 of this species is the barred 

 primary. It breeds from 

 Virginia northward. The 

 eggs are four or five in 

 number of a pale brownish 

 color, mottled with chocolate brown near the larger end. 



