BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 3879 
Range.—North America, migrating to South America. (Mono- 
typic.) 
: BARTRAMIA LONGICAUDA (Bechstein). 
UPLAND PLOVER. 
Adults in’ summer (sexes alike).—Pileum dusky grayish brown or 
dull sooty blackish, divided by a broken or interrupted (sometimes 
indistinct) median line of pale buffy and more or less streaked with 
the same, the forehead distinctly streaked with buffy and dusky; 
nape pale buffy, passing into dull grayish buffy on lower hindneck, 
narrowly streaked with blackish, the hindneck more broadly streaked 
with dusky ; interscapulars sooty blackish centrally, broadly margined 
with pale buffy and pale buffy grayish brown; scapulars grayish brown 
passing into pale buffy on margins and obliquely barred with black- 
ish; anterior lesser wing-coverts grayish brown narrowly margined 
with pale dull buffy, the remaining coverts pale grayish brown passing 
into pale buffy brown tipped or terminally margined (broadly) with 
pale buffy and rather distantly barred with dusky; tertials light 
grayish brown passing into pale buffy or dull buffy whitish on edges 
and obliquely barred with blackish; primary coverts dusky; pri- 
maries dark grayish brown or dusky, the proximal quills, margined 
terminally with white, broadly on outer webs, where, on three or 
four innermost quills more or less spotted with white; rump and 
upper tail-coverts plain dusky or sooty blackish, the longer upper 
tail-coverts more or less margined and spotted on terminal portion 
with light buffy grayish brown and pale buffy, the lateral ones with 
outer webs largely dull buffy white and with more or less of the same 
on terminal portion of inner webs; tail passing from grayish brown 
(indistinctly paler on edges) on middle pair of rectrices through 
pinkish buff or light pinkish cinnamon into pale pinkish buff on outer- 
most pair, on which the outer web and broad terminal space on inner 
web are white—the four outermost (on each side) broadly tipped with 
white and with a broad, more or less sagittate, subterminal bar of 
black, the four middle rectrices obliquely barred (on both webs) with 
black, the lateral ones with much fewer and less regular black bars and 
other markings; sides of head, posteriorly, sides of neck, foreneck, 
and chest pale buff, narrowly streaked with black; loral, suborbital, 
and malar regions, chin, throat, and under parts of body dull buffy 
white, immaculate on malar region, chin, throat lower breast (except 
laterally), abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts, the upper 
breast and sides of lower breast with V-shaped markings of black, the 
sides and flanks with bars (somewhat V-shaped anteriorly) of the 
same; axillars white regularly barred with slate-blackish, the under 
wing-coverts white, spotted and barred with the same; maxilla black- 
ish edged (except terminally) with light brownish or dull yellowish; 
