GENUS 73. TRINGA. SANDPIPER. 



SPECIES 1. T. BARTRAMM. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. 



[Plate LIX. Fig. 2.] 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 4040.* 



THIS bird being, as far as I can discover, a new species, un- 

 described by any former author, I have honoured it with the 

 name of my very worthy friend, near whose Botanic Gardens, 

 on the banks of the river Schuylkill, I first found it. On the 

 same meadows I have since shot several other individuals of the 

 species, and have thereby had an opportunity of taking an ac- 

 curate drawing, as well as description of it. 



Unlike most of their tribe, these birds appeared to prefer run- 

 ning about among the grass, feeding on beetles, and other wing- 

 ed insects. There were three or four in company; they seem- 

 ed extremely watchful, silent, and shy, so that it was always 

 with extreme difficulty I could approach them. 



These birds are occasionally seen there during the months of 

 August and September, but whether they breed near, I have 

 not been able to discover. Having never met with them on the 

 seashore, I am persuaded that their principal residence is in the 

 interior, in meadows, and such like places. They run with 

 great rapidity, sometimes spreading their tail, and dropping 

 their wings, as birds do who wish to decoy you from their nest; 

 when they alight, they remain fixed, stand very erect, and have 

 two or three sharp whistling notes as they mount to fly. They 

 are remarkably plump birds, weighing upwards of three-quar- 

 ters of a pound; their flesh is superior, in point of delicacy, ten- 



* Tetanus Barliamius, TEMM. Man. d'Orn. p . 650. 



