378 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Genus BARTRAMIA Lesson. 
Bartramia Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 553. (Type, by monotypy, B. laticauda 
Lesson= Tringa longicauda Bechstein.) 
Bartramius(emendation) Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., ser. 2, ix, 1857, 59. 
Actidurus Bonaparte, Saggio dist. met. Anim. Vert., 1831, 143. (Type, Tringa 
bartramia Wilson= T. longicauda Bechstein.) 
Actiturus (emendation) Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 51. 
Euliga Nurrauy, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 167. (Type, by 
original designation, Totanus bartramius Temminck=Tringa longicauda 
Bechstein.) 
Euligia (emendation) Gunpxac#, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 86. 
Rather large Tringine (?) (wing 157-181 mm.) with tail nearly 
half as long as wing, strongly rounded, or graduated; exposed culmen 
only about half as Jong as tarsus, the latter less than one-third as 
long as wing, and nearly twice as long as middle toe without claw, and 
coloration grayish brown and buffy barred and streaked with black, 
the under parts largely whitish. 
Bill relatively small and slender (about as long as head or slightly 
shorter),.the tip of maxilla slightly but distinctly decurved; exposed 
culmen more than half as long as tarsus, about as long as middle toe 
with part of its claw, slightly less than one-fifth as long as wing; nasal 
groove narrowly cuneate, extending about three-fourths of distance 
to tip of maxilla, the mandible with a narrow and rather indistinct 
lateral groove; nostril subbasal, longitudinally linear, in lower edge of 
nasal fossa; loral antia much anterior to malar antia, forming a not 
very definite line, near base of nostrils, and very slightly if at all an- 
terior to the scarcely divided frontal antia; mental antia about on 
vertical line with anterior end of nostril. ‘Wing long and pointed, 
the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal secondaries by a 
little more than half the length of wing, but projecting only slightly 
beyond tips of the longest tertials, the latter broad basally and grad- 
ually tapering to the acuminate tip. Tail nearly half as long as 
wing, graduated for nearly one-fourth its ‘length, the rectrices (12) 
slightly narrowed terminally but with broadly rounded tips. Tarsus 
long and slender, more than one and a half times as Jong as exposed 
culmen, less than one-fifth as long as wing, nearly twice as long as 
middle toe without claw, continuously scutellate anteriorly and 
posteriorly; bare portion of tibia nearly as long as middle toe with 
claw, also continuously scutellate before and behind; lateral toes 
much shorter than middle toe, the outer longer than the inner; a 
small but distinct web between basal phalanges of outer and middle 
toes, but none between inner and middle toes. 
Coloration.—Above grayish brown and buffy, streaked and barred 
with blackish, buff predominating on tail; beneath buffy whitish, the 
foreneck streaked, the chest and sides with V-shaped markings of 
blackish. 
