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BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER. 
ToTANUS BARTRAMIUS, TEMM. 
PLATE CCCIII. Mater anp FEMate. 
Tue Bartramian Sandpiper is the most truly terrestrial of its tribe 
with which I am acquainted. It is even more inclined, at all seasons, 
to keep away from the water, than the Kildeer Plover, which may of- 
ten be seen wading in shallow pools, or searching along the sandy or 
muddy margins of the shores of the sea, or of fresh-water lakes and 
streams. Although not unfrequently met with in the vicinity of such 
places, it never ventures to wade into them; and yet the form and 
length of its legs and feet would naturally induce a person not ac- 
quainted with its habits to consider it as a wading bird. 
The dry upland plains of those sections of Louisiana called Opel- 
lousas and Attacapas, are amply peopled with this species in early 
spring, as well as in autumn. They arrive there from the vast prairies 
of Texas and Mexico, where they spend the winter, in the beginning 
of March, or about the period of the first appearance of the Martins, 
Hirundo purpurea, and return about the first of August. They are 
equally abundant on all the western prairies on either side of the Mis- 
souri, where, however, they arrive about a month later than in Loui- 
siana, whence they disperse over the United States, reaching the middle 
districts early in May, and the State of Maine by the middle of that 
month, or about the same period at which they are seen in Indiana, 
Kentucky, and Ohio. Some proceed as far north as the plains adjoin- 
ing the Saskatchewan River, where Dr Ricnarpson met with this spe - 
cies in the month of May. 
It has been supposed that the Bartramian Sandpiper never forms large 
flocks, but this is not correct, for in the neighbourhood of New Orleans, 
where it is called the “* Papabote,” it usually arrives in great bands in 
spring, and is met with on the open plains and large grassy savannahs, 
where it generally remains about two weeks, though sometimes indi- 
viduals may be seen as late as the 15th of May. I have observed the 
same circumstances on our western prairies, but have thought that 
they were afterwards obliged to separate into small flocks, or even into 
