Upland Plover 125 
Nests, according to Goss who found this bird breeding 
at Lake Como, Wyo, are placed in tussocks of grass, 
near the water’s edge, and are bulky structures ; the eggs 
are usually four, somewhat pyriform in shape, buffy 
to greyish-white in colour, spotted and blotched with 
brown and purplish ; they average 27.10 x 1°55. They 
doubtless nest in Colorado, though nothing is known 
of their doing so. 
Genus BARTRAMIA. 
Of moderate size—wing 6 to 7; bill short and slender, about equal 
to the head, but distinctly shorter than the tarsus; tail long, about 
half the wing, strongly graduated ; tarsus scutellated, exceeding the 
middle toe and claw; outer toe webbed, inner one cleft; plumage 
highly variegated, tail barred. 
One species only ; accidental in Europe. 
Upland Plover, or Bartramian Sandpiper. 
Bartramia longicauda. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 261—Colorado Records—Allen 72, p. 152; 
Allen & Brewster 83, p. 198; Drew 85, p. 18; Morrison, 89, p. 168 ; 
Cooke 97, p. 67; Rockwell 08, p. 160; Cary 09, p. 180; Hersey & 
Rockwell 09, p. 116. 
Description. Above dusky black, variegated with tawny edges to 
the feathers, especially on the middle of the back and wings; rump 
and upper tail-coverts plain dusky, central tail-feathers brown 
banded with darker, lateral ones tawny-brown with irregular bars of 
dusky and white tips, primaries plain dusky barred with white on the 
inner web; below soiled white, the fore-neck, breast and sides marked 
with streaks of dusky, becoming bars posteriorly ; axillaries and under 
wing-coverts transversely barred with dusky; iris dark brown, bill 
yellowish with dusky tips, legs dull yellow. Length 11-0; wing 6-4; 
tail 3-0; culmen 1-15; tarsus 1-85. 
There is no seasonal change of plumage, and the young are very 
similar to the adults. 
Distribution. Breeding from Yukon and Ontario south to Utah, 
Kansas and Virginia; wintering far south, chiefly in South America 
on the Argentine plains. Accidental in Europe. 
In Colorado this Sandpiper does not appear to be well known, though 
it is probably a common summer resident on the eastern, plains of the 
State. It does not occur in the mountains or foothills. On the western 
