BARTRAM’S SANDPIPER. 499 
deep dusky ; bastard wing, bordered and tipped with white ; a spot of 
white on the middle of the.inner vane of each quill-feather except the 
first; secondaries, tipped with white; tail, rounded, the six middle 
feathers, greenish olive, the other three on each side white, barred 
with black; whole lower parts, white, beautifully marked with round- 
ish spots of black, small and thick on the throat and breast, larger and 
thinner as they descend to the tail; legs, a yellow clay color; claws, 
black. 
The female is as thickly spotted below as the male; but the young 
birds of both sexes are pure white below, without any spots; they also 
want the orange on the bill. Those circumstances [ have verified on 
numerous individuals. 
BARTRAM’S SANDPIPER.—TRINGA BARTRAMIA. — Fic. 234. 
Peale’s Museum, No. 4040. 
TOTANUS BARTRAMIUS, — Temminck.* 
Totanus Bartramius, Ord’s reprint of Wils. vol. vii. p. 67. — Chevalier 4 longue 
queue, Z’emm. Man. d’Orn. ii. p. 650.— Totanus Bartramius, Bonap. Synop. 
. 325. 
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Turs 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, near whose botanic gardens, on the banks of the River Schuyl- 
kill, I first found it. On the same meadows, I have since shot several 
other individuals of the species, and have thereby had an opportunity 
of taking an accurate drawing as well as description of it. 
Unlike most of their tribe, these birds appear to prefer running 
about among the grass, feeding on beetles and other winged insects. 
There were three or four in company ; they seemed extremely watch- 
ful, silent, and shy, so that it was always with extreme difficulty ] 
could approach them. 
These birds are occasionally seen there during the months of Au- 
gust and September, but whether they breed near I have not been 
able to discover. Having never met with them on the sea-shore, I am 
persuaded that their principal residence is in the interior, in meadows 
and such like places. They run with great rapidity, sometimes spread- 
ing their tail and dropping their wings, as birds do who wish to decoy 
you from their nest; when they alight, they remain fixed, stand very 
erect, and have two or three sharp, whistling notes, as they mount to fly. 
* The discovery of this species, I believe, is due to our author, who dedicated it 
to his venerable friend Bartram. It is admitted by Temminck as an occasional 
straggler upon the Dutch and German coasts, and is mentioned as having been only 
once met with by himself. Bonaparte asserts, on the authority of Say, that it is 
very common in some districts of the extcnsive Missouri prairies ; thus confinning 
the opinion of Wilson, that its residence is in the interior, and not on the sea-coast, 
like most of its congeners. The lengthened form, more conspicuous in the wedge 
shape of the tail, is at variance with the greater part of the Totani, and reminds us 
of the Kildeer Plover.— Ep. 
