HO BRITISH BIRDS. 



TOTANUS BARTRAMI. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. 



(PLATE 32.) 



Tringa longicauda, Bechst. Kurze Uebersicht, p. 453 (1811). 



Tringa bartramia, Wils. Am. Orn, vii. p. 63, pi. 59. fig. 2 (1813) ; et auctorum 

 plurimorum Audubon, Nuttall, (Temminck), (Naumann), (Bonaparte), 

 (Swainson $ Richardson), (Cones), (Allen), (Lawrence), (Sclater), (I)all fy Ban- 

 nister), (Hurting), (Salvin), (Ridgway), (Gray), (Dresser), (Pelzeln), (Schleyel), 

 &c. 



Totanus variegatus, I F ^ ^ ^^ d , H ^ ^_ ^ 3Q? 4Q1 / 1816)> 



Totanus melanopygms, I 



Totanus bartramia (Wils.), Temm. Man. d*Orn. ii. p. 050 (1820). 



Bartramia laticauda, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 553 (1831). 



Actitis bartrami ( Wils.), Naum. Vog. Deutschl. viii. p. 43 (1836). 



Actiturus bartramius (Wils.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. 8f N. Amer. p. 51 (1838). 



Tringoides bartrainius ( Wils.), Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 574 (1846). 



Bartramius longicaudus (Bechst.), Bonap. Rev. et May. Zool. 2nd series, ix. p. 59 

 (1857). 



Actiturus longicaudus (Bechst.), Newt. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 18 (1862). 



Bartram's Sandpiper was first recorded as a British bird from a specimen 

 which was shot near Warwick in October 1851 (Reid, 'Zoologist/ 1852, 

 p. 3330 ; J. H. Gurney, ' Zoologist/ 1852, p. 3388 ; and More, ' Zoologist/ 



1854, p. 4254). The second example was shot on the 12th of December, 



1855, in a field between Cambridge and Newmarket (Tearle, ' Illustrated 

 News/ January 20th, 1855). A third specimen was obtained near Mullion, 

 in Cornwall, and was sent to a game-dealer at Falmouth, in November 

 1865 (Bullmore, 'ZooJogist/ 1866, p. 37). A fourth specimen was dis- 

 covered in the collection of Dr. Woodforde, which was said to have been 

 shot, at least thirty years previously, on the banks of the river Parret, in 

 Somersetshire (Murray A. Mathew, ' Zoologist/ 1877, p. 389) . A fifth was 

 shot on the 21st of November, 1879, on the sea-banks at Lowhoughton 

 Low Stead, in Northumberland (Bolam, c Field/ 20th Dec., 1879). A 

 sixth, said to have come from Lincolnshire, was purchased in Leadenhall 

 Market on the 27th of October, 1880, and brought to Mr. Harting, who 

 recorded it ('Zoologist/ 1880, p. 508) . A seventh was killed at St. Keverne, 

 near the Lizard, in Cornwall, in October 1883 (Cornish, 'Zoologist/ 1883, 

 p. 495) . No examples of this bird have yet been recorded from Scotland 

 or Ireland. 



Bartram's Sandpiper breeds in the southern provinces of British North 

 America and in the northern portion of the United States. It migrates 

 southwards on the approach of winter in great numbers, both on the 



