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species is also seen late in April or early in May, but at that time 

 they are very shy. The fall birds being the young of the year 

 are usually quite tame. Nearly all the records of the occurrence 

 of this species in our vicinity have been published under the 

 specific name Semipalmata. It is probable that all of these 

 records referred to the subspecies inornata. 



The range of this species includes western North America, 

 eastward to the Mississippi Valley and the Gulf States. It 

 winters in the southern states and Mexico. 



Genus BARTRAMIA Lesson, 1831. 



Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). Bartramian Sandpiper. 



Tringa longicauda BECHSTEIN, Uebers. Lath. Ind. Orn., II, 1812, 453. 

 Tringa bartramia WILSON, Amer. Orn., VII, 1813, 63, pi. 59, fig. 2. 

 Totanus lartramius TEMM. 1S20. 

 Actiturus bartramius BONAPARTE, 1831. 



Bartramius longicaudus BONAPABTE, Rev. et. Mag. Zool., XX, 1857, 59. 

 Bartramia longicauda COUES, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, April, 1880, 100. 

 Popular synonyms : FIELD OB PBAIBIE PLOVEB. BABTBAMIAN TAT- 

 TLES. UPLAND PLOVEB. 



A common summer resident, arriving early in April and 

 nesting from the last of April to the middle of May. It leaves 

 our vicinity about the last of October. It frequents the borders 

 of sloughs, marshes and prairies. Mr. E. W. Nelson has pub- 

 lished the following note :* "Quite difficult to approach when it 

 first arrives, but during the breeding season becomes perfectly 

 reckless, and hovers over head or follows through the grass 

 within a few yards until it has escorted the intruder well off its 

 domain. The presence of a dog in the vicinity of its nesting 

 place is the signal for a general onslaught by all the birds of the 

 vicinity, which hover over the dog, and with loud cries endeavor 

 to drive it away. Being but little appreciated as game it is 

 seldom hunted in this vicinity." 



The range of this species includes North America but chiefly 

 east of the Rocky Mountains. It breeds nearly throughout its 

 North American range and winters as far southward as Brazil 

 and Peru. 



Genus TRYNGITES Cabanis, 1856. 

 Tryngites snbruficollis (Vieillot). Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 



Tringa subruficollis VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXXIV, 1819, 

 465. 



Birds of Northeastern Illinois, Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876. 12ft 



