BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER. 27 
scooped out to the depth of about an inch and a half, near the roots of 
a tuft of rank grass, in the middle of a meadow, and seen some nests 
of the same species formed of loosely arranged grasses, and placed al- 
most beneath low bushes growing on poor elevated ridges, furnished with 
ascanty vegetation. I have also heard my esteemed young friend, JoHn 
Trupeav, state that he had discovered one on a high part of the bank of 
the Delaware River. When disturbed while on its nest, but unobserved, 
it runs thirty or forty yards, and then flies off as if severely wounded. 
Should it have young, its attempts to decoy you away are quite enough 
to induce you to desist from harassing it. The eggs measure an inch and 
five and a half eighths, by an inch and a quarter in their greatest 
breadth. In form they resemble those of Totanus macularius, being 
broadly rounded atone end, andrather pointed at the other; their surface 
smooth ; their ground colour dull greyish-yellow, with numerous spots of 
light purple and reddish-brown. They are placed in the nest in the same 
manner as those of the Spotted Sandpiper, that is, with the smaller 
ends together, which is also the case with those of the Tell-tale Godwit, 
Wilson’s Plover, and the Kildeer Plover. The young, which run about 
immediately after exclusion, grow rapidly, and in about a month are 
able to use their wings, after which, they and their parents gradually, 
and according to the temperature of the season, move southward. 
In Massachusetts, and to the eastward of that state, this species is 
best known by the name of “Upland Plover,” and in some other dis- 
tricts itis named the Field Plover. The drawing from which the plate 
was engraved was taken from individuals shot near Bayou Sara, in the 
State of Mississippi. 
Toranus Bartramtius, Ch. Bonap., Synopsis of Birds of the United States, p. 262. 
Tries Bartrramia, Wils. Amer. Ornith. vol. vii. p. 63. pl. 59. fig. 2. 
Bartramian TarrteER, WVuttall, Manual, vol. i. p. 169. 
Toranus Bartramtivs, Richards. and Swains. Fauna Bor. Amer. vol. ii- p. 391._ 
Adult Male. Plate CCCIII. Fig. 1. 
Bill a little longer than the head, slender, straight, slightly defected 
at the end. Upper mandible with the dorsal line straight, the ridge 
convex, the sides grooved beyond the middle, afterwards convex, the 
edges inflected, the tips a little deflected, and tapering to an obtuse 
