UPLAND PLOVER. 489 



Philomachus pdgnai (L.) Gr. 



Philomaehua pugnax, Whbaton, Bull. NuttaU Om. Club, ii, 1877, 83. 



Tringa pugnax, LiNNiEUS, Sygt. Nat., 1766, 247. 

 Philomachus pugnax, Grat, Genera. 



Male in the breeding season with the face bare and beset with paplUse, and the neck 

 witii an extravagant ruff of elongated feathers ; plumage endlessly variable in color ; 

 length, about 10 ; wing, 6^-7 ; tail, 2^-3 ; bill, li ; tarsus, If ; middle toe and claw, li ; 

 female, smaller, the head folly feathered and no inff. 



Habitat, Northern Europe and Asia. Accidental in United States. 



LeBS than a dozen instances of the occurrence of this bird in North 

 America are recorded. In 1858, Mr. Cassin gives it as accidental on 

 Long Island. Mr. Brewer (Am. Nat. 1872, 306), recrards its occurrence in 

 Massachusetts, and 1876 (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 19), its capture 

 in Maine. The only Record of its occurience in Ohio, is my own, above 

 cited, as follows : 



" Dr. Theodore Jasper, of this city, obtained, November 10, 1872, at the Licking Beser- 

 voir, thirty miles east of Columbus, a Wader which remained unidentified till recently. 

 I was of the opinion that it would prove to be either Philomachus pugnax, or a nonde- 

 script. .On communicating my views to Mr. H. W. Henshaw, of Washington, he kindly 

 offereJ to compare the specimen with others in Uie National Museum. He writes tliat 

 the bird, which was a male (probably young), is positively identical with specimens of 

 that species in the collection of the National Museum." 



Gbnus ACTITURUS. Bonaparte. 



BUI short, straight, about as long as the head, grooved three-fourths its length, the 

 gape very deep reaching to nearly below the eyes, the feathers extending on the upper 

 mandible beyond those on the lower, which do not fill the interramal space ; tail very 

 long, more than half the wing, graduated ; tarsi mnch longer than middle toe and 

 claw ; tibiae bare near the length of the latter. 



ACTITUBUS BABTEAMIUS (Wils.) Bp. 



Ba,rtr»miii.Ti Sandpiper; Upland IPlovei*. 



Totanua lartramita, Audubon, Orn. Biog., iv, 18;J8, 24 — Kiktland, Ohio Geulog. Surv., 



1838, 165, 185. 

 Tringa lartramia, Audubon, B. Am., v, 1842, 248. 

 Aoliturus bartramiu8, Whkaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 360 5 Reprint, 11; Food 



of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. fw 1874, 1875, 673 ; Reprint, 13. — Copb, Zoolog. 



Sketch of Ohio, WaUing and Gray's Atlas of Ohio, 1872, 25.— Langdon, Cat. Birds 



of Cin., 1877, 15 ; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 183 ; Reprint, 17. 



Tringa lartramia, Wilson, Am. Orn.. vii, 1813, 63. 

 Totamu iartramiue, Temminck, Man., ii, 1820, 650. 

 ActHnrue iartramius, Bonapaetb, Saggio, 1831. 



