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PR/ECUCIAL GHALLATUKES — LLMICUL.E. 



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Bartramia longicauda. 



BABTBAH'S TATTLEB; FIELD FLOVEB. 



Tringa longicauda, Hechst. Vijg. Nachtr. tibers. Liith. Iiul. Orii. 1812, 453. 



Tringii Baiiramia, Wii.s. Am. Oni. VII. liiia, 63, pi. 59, tig. 2. — AuD. Syiiop. 1839, 231 ; B. Am. 



V. 1842, 248, 111. 327. 

 Tringa (Euliga) Bartramia, XuiT. Man. 11. 1834, 168. 

 Totanus Barlramim, Tk.mm. .Man. II. 1820, 650. — S\v. & Kicii. F. B. A. II. 1831, 391. — Ai'D. Orii- 



liiog. IV. 1838, 24, 1.1. 3(13. 

 Actitttrus Bartramius, Hoxai-., Cassin, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 737. — lUiiip, Cat. N. Am. I!. 



IS,'-.!), no. 545. - C'oUKs, Koy, 1872, 260 : Chock List, 1873, no. 438 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 502. 

 Adit urns loiujiraiuliin, Diir.ssKij, H. Kiir. |.t. 59 and 60. 

 Barlraiiiiiin limgiramlus, \Sv. liev. I't .Mag. Zool. .K.\. 1857, 59. 

 Bartramia longicaud", Ci.i'r.s, Bull. N. O. C. Apr. 1880,100 ; Check List, 2d td. 1882, no. 640.— 



RiDGW. Norn. N. Am. B. 1882, no. 555. 

 Totanus mdamipiigius, Vieill. Xouv. Diet. VI. 1816, 401. 

 Totanus eainpfstris, ViKll,!,. t. c. 400. 

 Totanus varicgatus, ViEii.i.. t. c. 317. 

 Bartramia lalicauda, Lkhs. Traite, 1831, 553. 



Hah. Eastern North America, nii;,M'iitiiig to Brazil unil Peru, and extending north to Alaska 

 and Xovu '^ootia. Brwds nearly throughout its Ni.rth American range. Occasional in Europe. 



Sp. Char. Bill about as long as the heatl, rather wide and flatteneil at base, slightly curved 

 at the tip : nostril with a large membrane ; nasal gr<iove long ; wing long ; tail long for this grou[i ; 

 leg8 moderate or r.ather long ; lower halt' of the tibia naked ; toes moderate, the outer and middle 

 nniteil by a membrane, inner and middle free to the base ; liind toe small. Adult : Above, grayi^li 

 brown, the leathers paler and more ochraceous toward their edges, spotted and barred with black : 

 head and neck (except throat) streaked with blackish ; crown blackish, divided by a mesial line ol 

 bulf ; throat, belly, and crissum plain buflfy white ; axillars jiure white and clear dusky slate in 

 regnlar bars (.f nearly ('(jual width ; tail-feathers (except middle pair) creamy butf, broadly tipped 

 with white, cro.ssed by a broail subterminal bhick spot, and with a few irregular narrow bars ante- 

 rior to this : outer webs of prinnnies plain dusky slate, the inner webs with wide transverse bars 

 of white on the outer tiuill, on the others broken into a confused mottling. Hump and upper 

 tail-coverts nearly nniforni blackish, the (.uter feathers of the latter with their exterior webs partly 

 white. Young : Similar to the adult, but the buff of the head, jugulum, wings, etc., much deeper, 

 the streaks on the i'oreneck and jugulum much less distinct, and the back plain black, the feath- 

 ers bordered with buff. " Bill yellowish green, the tip dusky, the edges toward the base yellow ; 

 iris dark hazel ; legs and tarsi light yellowish gray, toes rather darker, claws brownish black." 

 Donmy young: Above, coar.sely and irregularly mottled with black on a grayish-wiiite ground, 

 tinged with light rusty. Lower parts bnffy white, with about three blackish spots on the flanks, 

 one beneath the eye, a smaller one on the lores, about half-way between the bill ami the eye, and 

 a large, nearly vertical, one liehind the ears. 



Total length, about 12 inches; wing, 6.50-7.(K) ; culnien, 1.10-1.15; tarsus, 1.90-2.05; luid- 

 tlle toe, .90-1.05. 



