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PKJECOCIAL GRALLATURES — LIMICOL^. 



Bartramia longicauda. 



BARTRAM'S TATTLER; FIELD PLOVER. 



Tringa longicauda, Bechst. Vbg. Nachtr. ubcrs. Lath. Iml. Oru. 1812, 453. 



Tringn Bartramia, WiLs. Am. Orn. VII. 1S13, 63, pi. 69, iig. 2. — AuD. Synop. 1839, 231 ; B. Am. 



V. 1842, 248, pi. 327. 

 Tringa (Euliga) Bartramia, Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 168. 

 Totaims Bartramiuii, Temm. Man. II. 1820, 650. — Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 391. — ArD. Oni- 



Biog. IV. 1838, 24, pi. 303. 

 Actiturus Bartramius, Bonap., Cassin, iu Baiid's B. N. Am. 1858, 737. — Baikd, Cat. N. Am. B. 



1859, uo. 545. — Coues, Key, 1872, 260 : Check List, 1873, no. 438 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 502. 

 Actiturus longicaudus, Dre.?.sf.e, B. Eur. pt. 59 and 60. 

 Bartramius longicaudus, Bp. Eev. et Mag. Zool. XX. 1857, 59. 

 Bartramia longicauda, CouES, Bull. N. 0. C. Apr. 1880, 100 ; Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 640. — 



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

 Totanus melanopygius, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. VI. ISlC, 401. 

 Totanus campcstris, Vieill. t. c. 400. 

 Totanus variegatus, Vieill. t. e. 317. 

 Bartramia laticauda, Less. Traite, 1831, 553. 



Hab. Eastern North America, migrating to Brazil and Peru, and extending north to Alaska 

 and Nova Scotia. Breeds nearly throughout its North American range. Occasional in Europe. 



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

 at the tip : nostril with a large membrane ; nasal groove long ; wing long ; tail long for this group ; 

 legs moderate or rather long ; lower hall' of the tibia naked ; toes moderate, the outer and middle 

 united by a membrane, inner and middle free to the base ; hind toe small. Adult : Above, grayish 

 brown, the feathers 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 of 

 buff ; throat, belly, and crissum plain buffy white ; axillars pure white and clear dusky slate in 

 regular bars of nearly equal width : tail-feathers (except middle pair) creamy buff, broadly tipped 

 with white, crossed by a broad subterminal black spot, and with a few irregular narrow bars ante- 

 rior to this ; outer webs of primaries plain dusky slate, the inner webs with wide transverse Ijars 

 of white on the outer quill, on the others broken into a confused mottling. Rump and upper 

 tail-coverts nearly uniform blackish, the outer feathers of the latter with their exterior webs partly 

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

 the streaks on the foreneck and jugulum much less distinct, and the back plain black, the feath- 

 ers bordered vvith 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 brownisli black." 

 Downy young : Aljove, coarsely and irregularly mottled with black on a grayish-white groun<l, 

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

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

 a large, nearly vertical, one behind the ears. 



Total length, about 12 inches ; wing, 6.50-7.00 ; culmen, 1.I0-I.15 ; tarsus, 1.90-2.05 ; mid- 

 dle toe, .90-1.05. 



