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brown commences at the base of the upper mandible, 

 extends halt-way to the eye, where it changes to 

 reddish-brown ; upper part of head and the hind 

 neck dusky, the feathers margined with greyish 

 white — a few touches of pule reddish-brown on the 

 latter ; throat, fore-neck, breast, and abdomen red- 

 dish-brown ; vent white ; lower tail coverts white, 

 spotted with dusky ; upper plumage blackish-brown, 

 upper tail-coverts barred with black and white ; tail 

 pale brown, margined with white ; pvimaiy coverts 

 black, tipped with white; secondary coverts grey- 

 ish-brown, margined with white. Young with the 

 upper parts greyish-brown ; the feathers with cen- 

 tral dusky streaks, a narrow line of cinnamon-color 

 towards their margins, which are dull white ; the 

 lower parts ash-grey. Length of adult, ten inches ; 

 wing, six and three-quarters." — Qiraud. 



Upland Ploteb. 



Grrey, Grass, or Field Plover. 



Bartram's Sandpiper. 



Tringd, Bartramia, Wils. 



This bird, although scientifically not a plover, is, 



by its habits, entitled to an appellation that common 



consent has bestowed upon it. It is found upon the 



uplands, never frequenting the marshes except by 



crossing them while migrating, and feeds, not on 



shell-fish or the innumerable minute insects that live 



in sand and salt mud, but on the grasshoppers and 



seeds of the op^n fields. It never takes the slightest 



