Bartramian Sandpiper 143 



ponds with stony or sandy borders, everywhere throughout this 

 section. It is easily identified, for other members of its family 

 are very rare hereabouts. Flying low over the water, with 

 peculiar intermittent wing motion and uttering the while its 

 sweet-toned peet, ptet, peei, it is often about the only sign 

 of bird life in its watery haunts, unless the rattling notes of 

 the Kingfisher happen to be heard overhead. When the bird 

 aUghts it teeters rapidly several times, picks a scrambhng bug 

 from the sand and runs onward, constantly bobbing and 

 feeding. The nest is usually placed a considerable distance 

 from the water. I have found several in potato fields. It 

 is a mere depression in the ground with a few straws or particles 

 of grass at the bottom. The eggs, numbering four, are 

 decidedly pyriform, with creamy ground and heavily spotted 

 and blotched with varying shades of dark brown, heavier at 

 the larger end. 



Bartramian Sandpiper; Upland Plover. — Barlramia. 

 longicauda. 11.30 



Uncommon Summer Resident 



Field marks. — Tail long; outer wing feathers barred with 

 white; upper parts mixture of black and light brown; 

 under parts bufly to white; breast and sides streaked 

 with black ; bill over an inch long. 



No nest here is recorded. 



