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pilei plumis nigris, arenario marginatis ; loris et supercilio distincto fulvescenti-albis ; facie lateral!, 

 prapectore et pectore summo nigro striolatis ; genis et gula albis ; corpore reliquo subtus albo, hypo- 

 cbondriis nigro fasoiatis, pectoris lateribus nigro triquetrim fasoiatis ; subalaribus et axillaribus albis, 

 nigro transfasciatis : rostro flavicanti-viridi, basin versus flavo ; pedibus pallide flavioanti-griseis ; iride 

 coryllina. Long, tota circa 9-0, alse 6-4, caudae 3-2, culm. 1-2, tarsi 1-d. (Descr. maris aduiti ex Pinal, 

 Puebla. Mus. nostr.) 

 PHI. msiiv. ptilosi hiemali similis, sed nigrieantior, marginibus plumarura pallidis obsoletioribus, pr^pec^fcore 

 et pectore summo fasciis triquetris et cordiformibiis notatis. (Descr. maris aduiti ex Dueiias. Mus. 

 nostr.) ' ' 



Eah. North America, mainly east of the Kocky Mountains, north to Nova Scotia and 

 Alaska, breeding throughout most of its range 9. — Mexico, Valley of Mexico 

 {Herrera^% Guanajuato (Duges^% Zacatecas, Chapala, Jalisco {Eichardson^^ 

 Cacoprieto, Tapanatepec, Orizaba (Sumichrasp^), Vera Cruz (SallS ^^), Pinal, 

 Puebla (F. D. G. & Ferrari-Perez ii), Las Vegas, Jalapa {Ferrari- Perez ") ; British 

 Honduras, Turneff I. {0. S.^^); Guatemala, Dueiias {^^^% Sakluk" {0. S.); 

 Honduras, Huatan I., Bay of Honduras {Gaumer " ^'^) ; Nicaragua, Rio Escondido 

 (Bichmond ^) ; Costa Eica {Carmiol ^o), Alajuela [Zeledon % San Jose (Cherrie '') ; 

 Panama {M'Lednnan ^^ i^ i^), Divala, Chiriqui {Brown ^^). — South America in 

 winter, to Amazonia, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay ^^. 



Bartram's Sandpiper resembles the true Plovers in many of its habits, and is one of 

 the most interesting of all the "Waders, being an inhabitant of the plains of North 

 America, "rarely seen near vrater, in which it seldom, if ever, wades, frequenting 

 grassy fields and prairie-like stretches." ^^. It breeds throughout the greater part of 

 its North-American habitat east of the Rocky Mountains, and is seldom found on the 

 Pacific coast. In Central America the species is only a winter visitor, passing through 

 the Valley of Mexico in August and September ^. In Costa Rica, Mr. Cherrie says 

 that it was tolerably common at San Jose from about the 5th of September to the 14th 

 of November "^ ; and Mr. Richmond noticed the species on the Rio Escondido in 

 Nicaragua on the 26th of the latter month ^. In Guatemala a flock consisting of 

 some eighteen or twenty individuals an'ived at Duenas on their return journey in the 

 beginning of April. They frequented the open dry savannas, rather than the marshy 

 pools, and fully justified the appellation of " Field-Plovers " ^^. 



B. longica'uda, though seen at times in considerable numbers on the Atlantic coast 

 of North America, is, according to Mr, Elliot, never met with in the great flocks 

 observed in the Western States, like Kansas, and to the southward, more especially 

 in Texas, where the bird congregates sometimes in thousands. As a rule, it is shy, 

 except in the breeding-season, or in places where it has not been molested. He 

 writes : — " It associates often at this time with the Golden Plover and others of the 

 family found in similar localities, and may be seen scattered in groups or singly over 

 the prairies"^". 



