782 TRINGITES BARTRAMIA 



TRINGITES, Cab., 1856. 

 1081. BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 

 TRINGITES RUFESCENS. 



Tringites rufescens (Vieill.), Nouv. Diet. xxiv. p. 470 (1819) ; (Gould), 

 B. of E. iv. pi. 326 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 64 ; Newton, P.Z.S. 

 1867, pi. xv. fig. 4 (egg) ; Dresser, viii. p. 109, pi. 561 ; Saunders, 

 p. 601 ; Lilford, v. p. 99, pi. 43 ; Poynting, p. 183, pi. 39 ; T. sub- 

 ruficollis (Vieill.), torn. cit. p. 465 (1819) ; Kidgway, p. 169 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 521. 



( ad. (Mexico). Upper parts clay -buff marked with black, the^ dorsal 

 feathers tipped with dirty white ; quills blackish brown, the elongated 

 inner secondaries metallic blackish brown margined with ochreous ; tail 

 brown tinged with metallic grey, with a subterminal blackish band and 

 tipped with bufFy white, the outer feathers marbled with blackish ; under 

 parts clay-yellow, paler on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, the sides of 

 the breast blotched with black ; the under surface of the wing marbled 

 with black ; bill greenish black ; legs clay-yellow ; iris hazel-brown. 

 Culmen 0'9, wing 5 '15, tail 2 -25, tarsus 1*25 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hob. America, breeding in the high north, and migrating 

 south for the winter as far down in South America as Peru and 

 Paraguay; of accidental occurrence in Europe, but has been 

 obtained about a dozen times in England, three times in Ireland, 

 once in Switzerland, and once in Heligoland. 



Is chiefly met with inland and not on the coast, and frequents 

 grassy plains and also sandy arid localities. It is tame and un- 

 suspicious, and runs with ease and swiftness ; on the wing it most 

 nearly resembles a Ringed Plover. Its call-note is a low, weak 

 tweet, and its food consists of insects of various kinds. It breeds 

 in Arctic and subarctic America late in June or early in July, 

 the nest being a mere depression in the ground scantily lined 

 with a few withered leaves and dried grasses, and the eggs, 4 in 

 number, are clay-yellow with an olivaceous or drab tint, or of a 

 peculiar grey in ground-colour, boldly and sharply marked, chiefly 

 at the larger end, with rich umber-brown and with purplish grey 

 underlying shell blotches ; in size they measure about 1*46 by T05. 



BARTRAMIA, Less., 1831. 



1082. BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. 

 BARTRAMIA LONGICAUDA. 



Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.), Kurze Uebers. Latham, p. 453, pi. 184 

 (1811) ; (Dresser), viii. p. 119, pi. 562 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 xxiv. p. 509 ; Ridgway, p. 169 ; Saunders, p. 603 ; Lilford, v. 



