144 A MANUAL OF THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



Genus BARTRAMIA. 



Bartramia Lesson, Traite d'Orn., livr. 7, p. 553, April 9th, 1831. Type (by monotypy) : 



B. laticauda = Tringa longicauda Bechstein. 



Actidurus Bonaparte, Giornale Arcadico (Roma), Vol. LII., p. 208, 1831, 1832. Type 



(by monotypy) : Tringa longicauda Bechstein. New name for Bartramia Less. 



Euliga Nuttall, Man. of Ornith., Vol. II., p. 167, 1834. Type (by original designation) : 



Tringa bartramia Wilson = Tringa longicauda Bechstein. 



Medium Totanine Waders with short bills, long wings, long tails, long legs, and 

 long toes. 



The culmen is short and straight, the tip slightly swollen and decurved ; the 

 groove in the upper mandible extends for more than half the length of the culmen, 

 which is scarcely longer than the middle toe and claw and less than two-thirds the 

 length of the metatarsus. 



The wings are very long, with the first primary longest. The tail is very long 

 and wedge shaped, more than half the length of the wing, and three times the length 

 of the culmen. The metatarsus is more than half the length of the tail but less than 

 twice the middle toe ; the exposed portion of the tibia is more than half the length 

 of the metatarsus and equal to the middle toe. Tarsus regularly scuteJlated before 

 and behind. 



The toes are long, and the middle toe is more than half the length of the meta- 

 tarsus and little less than the culmen ; the webbing between the toes is as in the 

 preceding Totanoid genera. A long hind -toe is present. 



100. Bartramia longicauda. LONG- TAIL ED SANDPIPER. 



Gould, Suppl., pi. 77 (pt. iv.), Dec. 1st, 1867. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 3, pi. 157, Aug. 18th, 



1913. 



Tringa longicauda Bechstein, Kurze Uebera. Vogel, p. 453, (pref. April 12th, 1810), 1811 : 



North America. 



Tringa bartramia Wilson, Amer. Ornith, Vol. VII., p. 63, pi. 59, fig. 2, 1813 (pref. March 1st) : 



Pennsylvania, North America. 



Totanus variegatus VieUlot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Vol. VI., p. 397, Dec. 14th, 1816 : 



South America. 



Totanus campestris Vieillot, ib., p. 400 : Paraguay, South America. 



Totanus melanopygius Vieillot, ib. t p. 401 : North America. 



Bartramia laticauda Lesson, Trait6 d'Orn., livr. 7, p. 553, April 9th, 1831. New name for 



Tringa bartramia Wilson. 



DISTRIBUTION. No Australian-shot specimens preserved, and record very doubtful. 



Adult male. General colour above black, the feathers everywhere margined 

 with sandy-rufous and white ; head black with sandy-rufous edges to the feathers ; 

 hind-neck rufous with dark brown centres to the feathers, giving a streaked appear- 

 ance ; mantle and back black, the feathers edged with rufous ; lower back, middle 

 upper tail-coverts and rump uniform black, the lateral upper tail-coverts barred with 

 buff and black ; lesser wing-coverts dark brown fringed with sandy-rufous ; greater 

 coverts olive-brown barred with darker brown, fringed on the sides with sandj'- 

 rufous and tipped with white ; bastard-wing blackish, tipped with white ; primary- 

 coverts black with pale edges to some of the inner ones ; primary-quills dark brown 

 on the outer webs, the inner webs barred with white ; first primary mottled and 

 barred with brown and white, shaft also white ; inner primaries barred with pale 

 and dark brown, fringed and tipped with white, the secondaries similarly coloured ; 

 the long innermost secondaries like the back ; middle tail-feathers greyish-brown 

 tinged with rufous and barred with black, becoming rufous on the outer feathers 

 which are also barred with black and broadly tipped with white ; throat white ; 

 sides of face, lower throat, and upper-breast sandy-buff, with narrow brown streaks ; 

 abdomen and under tail -co verts buff y -white ; sides of body sandy-rufous barred 



