126 Birds of Colorado 
slope Rockwell observed a single bird on a sage-brush flat in the Plateau 
Valley at about 6,800 feet, in Mesa co., while Cary heard and saw a good 
many individuals on migration near Lay and Meeker in August. Messrs. 
Allen and Brewster noted a good many specimens brought into market 
in Colorado Springs, April 28th. This is the only dated record for its 
arrival in the spring. Hersey and Rockwell found a nest with fresh 
eggs, June 28th, 1907, near Barr, where it is not uncommon. 
Habits.—The Bartramian Sandpiper, or Upland Plover 
as it is more frequently known, although a wader by 
structure, prefers the dry upland prairies and cultivated 
fields. It lives chiefly on grasshoppers and also eats 
berries, and is consequently very fat and delicate and 
a much esteemed bird for the table. 
The nest, according to Goss, is placed on the open 
prairies in a depression or sheltered by a tuft of grass, 
and is lightly constructed and difficult to find. The 
eggs, four in number, are greyish-white to pale buff, 
spotted all over, chiefly at the larger end, with various 
shades of brown. They are somewhat pyriform in shape 
and measure 1°75 x 1:27. 
Genus ACTITIS. 
Small Sandpipers, wing under 4-5; bill, head, tarsus and middle toe 
with claw, all about equal; tail rather long, about half the length of 
the wing ; outer toe basally webbed, inner one cleft; no white on the 
rump or central tail-feathers; spotted below. 
One Old World and one New World species only. 
Spotted Sandpiper. Actitis macularia. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 263—Colorado Records—Allen, 72, pp. 152, 159, 
164; Aiken 72, p. 210; Coues & Trippe 74, p. 501; Drew 81, p, 142; 
85 p. 18; Tresz 81, p. 245; Allen & Brewster 83, p. 198; Beckham 
85, p. 18; Morrison 88, p. 140; 89, p. 168; Kellogg 90, p. 86; Lowe 
92, p. 101; McGregor 97, p. 38 ; Cooke 97, pp. 18, 67, 200 ; Henderson 
03, p. 234; Warren 06, p. 19; 08, p. 20; 09, p. 14; Markman 07, 
p. 156; Rockwell 08, p. 160; Hersey & Rockwell 09, p. 116. 
Description. Female in summer—Above bronzy-brown, lightly 
streaked on the head, cross-barred on the back and wings with dusky ; 
