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I have also heard my esteemed young friend, Dr. James Trudeatt, state that 

 he had discovered one on a high part of the bank of the Delaware river. 

 When disturbed while on its nest, but unobserved, it runs thirty or forty 

 yards, and then flies off as if severely wounded. Should it have young, its 

 attempts to decoy you away are quite enough to induce you to desist from 

 harassing it. The eggs measure an inch and five and a half eighths, by an 

 inch and a quarter in their greatest breadth. In form they resemble those of 

 Tot anus macularius, being broadly rounded at one end, and rather pointed 

 at the other; their surface smooth; their ground colour dull greyish-yellow, 

 with numerous spots of light purple and reddish-brown. They are placed in 

 the nest in the same manner as those of the Spotted Sandpiper, that is, with 

 the smaller ends together, which is also the case with those of the Tell-tale 

 Godwit, Wilson's Plover, and the Kildeer Plover. The young, which run 

 about immediately after exclusion, grow rapidly, and in about a month are 

 able to use their wings, after which, they and their parents gradually, and 

 according to the temperature of the season, move southward. 



In Massachusetts, and to the eastward of that state, this species is best 

 known by the name of "Upland Plover," and in some other districts it is 

 named the Field Plover. The drawing from which the plate was engraved 

 was taken from individuals shot near Bayou Sara, in the State of Mississippi. 



Bartram Sandpiper, Tringa Bartramia, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. vii. p. 63. 



Totanus Bartramics, Bonap. Syn., p. 262. 



Totanus Bartramius, Bartram Tatler, Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 391. 



Bartramian Tatler, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 169. 



Bartra.mian Sandpiper, Totanus Bartramius, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iv. p. 24. 



Male, 121, 22. Female, 13, 22f. 



From Texas along the coast to Nova Scotia. Breeds from Maryland 

 northward to the Saskatchewan. In vast flocks in Louisiana, Oppelousas, 

 and the Western Prairies, in autumn and spring. Rare in Kentucky. 



Adult Male. 



Bill a little longer than the head, slender, straight, slightly deflected at the 

 end. Upper mandible with the dorsal line straight, the ridge convex, the 

 sides grooved beyond the middle, afterwards convex, the edges inflected, the 

 tips a little deflected, and tapering to an obtuse point. Nostrils sub-basal, 

 lateral, linear, pervious, nearer the edge than the dorsal line. Lower man- 

 dible with the angle very narrow and elongated, beyond it the outline 

 slightly convex, the sides sloping outwards and concave until the middle, 

 afterwards flattened, the edges sharp, the point very narrow. 



Head rather small, convex above, compressed. Neck of moderate length, 

 slender. Body rather slender. Feet long and slender; tibia bare for about 



