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Measurements (derived from seven freshly killed birds) : 

 length eleven and a quarter to twelve and a quarter inches ; 

 extent twenty-one and three eighths to twenty-two and one 

 eighth inches ; bill, measured along its top, about one and three 

 sixteenths inches. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER: BARTRAM'S TATTLER: UPLAND 

 SANDPIPER: BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER: BARTRAMIAN TAT- 

 TLER: BARTRAM'S HIGHLAND SNIPE* Wilson says, Yol. VII., 

 1813 : " This bird being, as far as I can discover, a new species, 

 undescribed by any former author, I have honored it with the 

 name of my very worthy friend [William Bartram], near whose 

 botanic gardens, on the banks of the river Schuylkill, I first 

 found it." 



This is proverbially a difficult bird to approach ; is found 

 throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains, and is 

 a great favorite among sportsmen and epicures. 



In Maine at Bangor, Rockland, Bath, Portland, and Pine 

 Point, at Portsmouth, N. H., in Massachusetts at Ipswich, Prov- 

 incetown, and West Barnstable, UPLAND PLOVER. 



Concerning its book-name, Bartram's Sandpiper, Mr. E. E. T. 

 Seton, of Manitoba, says in an article on popular names of birds 

 (Auk, July, 1885) : " Ever since Wilson's time this name has been 

 continually thrust into the face of the public, only to be as con- 

 tinually rejected ; Upland Plover it continues to be in the East, 

 and QUAILY on the Assiniboine." 



At Bangor, Me., and in New Jersey at Barnegat, Tuckerton, 

 and Cape May C. H., FIELD PLOVER; and Dr.Wheaton writes 

 in a report of the birds of Ohio (Columbus, 1879) : " Field Plover, 

 as it is commonly termed with us." 



At Bath and Portland, Me., HIGHLAND PLOVER; at Ports- 

 mouth, N. H., and Salem, Mass., PASTURE PLOVER ; at Prov- 

 incetown, UPLANDER; in Maynard's Birds of Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, HILL BIRD ; at New Bedford, Mass., Newport, B. I., 



* So termed by Dr. Woodhouse, Sitgreaves' Expedition, Zuni and Colorado 

 Rivers, 1853. 



