326 CHAKADKIID^E 



DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 



PLUMAGE. Adult male. Head, neck, and back, buffish- 

 brown, mottled with black ; throat and sides of breast, 

 spotted black; front of breast and abdomen, reddish-buff; 

 wings, including primaries and under wing-coverts, con- 

 spicuously ' marbled ' with black ; tips of primaries and 

 central tail-feathers of a greenish tinge ; outer tail-feathers, 

 barred with brownish-black towards their extremities. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage, but 

 black ' marblings ' on the inner web of the primaries not so 

 distinct. 



Adult winter, male and female. It w r ould appear that 

 the adult winter plumage has not been described. 



Immature, male and female. Head, neck, and back, 

 brownish, the feathers being broadly edged with dull white ; 

 breast and abdomen, paler, and spots smaller than in the 

 adult ; ' marblings ' on the wing-feathers somewhat indistinct. 



BEAK. Dull olive-green, shading to greenish-black. 



FEET. Dull yellowish-green. 



IRIDES. Hazel-brown. 



EGGS. Pale buff or olive, marked with bluish-grey and 

 blotches of reddish-brown and black (the markings vary 

 considerably) : clutch, four. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH 8 in. 



WING 5-25 



BEAK 0'9 ,, 



TARSO-METATARSUS 1-25 ,, 



EGG 1-45 x 1 in. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). 



Coloured Figures. Gould, ' Birds of Great Britain,' vol. iv, pi. 

 63 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe,' vol. viii, pi. 562 ; Lilford, 

 * Coloured Figures,' vol. v, pi. 44. 



This Sandpiper is another American species which very 

 rarely reaches our shores. It has occurred chiefly during 

 the autumn migration. A specimen shot near Warwick in 



