THE UPLAND PLOVER 201 
THE UPLAND PLOVER. 
GRASS PLOVER. PRAIRIE PIGEON. 
BARTRAM’S SANDPIPER. 
(Bartramia longicauda.) 
This beautiful bird dwells on our continent 
in almost every part east of the Rockies, is oc- 
casionally seen in Europe, and has been re- 
ported from Australia. It breeds from the 
Middle States of the Union northward to the 
Yukon and spends the winter in the Southern 
States, Central and South America, starting for 
these winter quarters generally during the Iat- 
ter part of September. 
As is the case with most of the migrant wad- 
ers, we, of New England, see a very small part 
of this vast army of winged pilgrims, the bulk 
of the flights passing over the western coun- 
try, where this species is especially abundant, 
traveling in flocks of thousands during the sea- 
sons of migration. When the law’s protect- 
ing shield is taken away the market gunners kill 
great numbers of these birds every year, for 
the Uplands on the western prairies become ex- 
tremely tame, almost beyond the belief of the 
