BAETEAM'S PLOVEE. 



BARTRAMIA LONGICAUDA {Bechst). 



Triuga longicauda, Bechstein, Kurze Uebers. aller bek. Vogel, 



p. 453 (1811). 

 Actitis bartrami, Naum. viii. p. 43, xiii. p. 238. 

 Bartramia longicauda, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 440. 

 Actiturus longicaudus. Dresser, viii. p. 119. 



I find seven records of the occurrence of this American 

 species in England in the 4th ed. of ' Yarrell,' vol. iii., 

 under the heading of "Bartram's Sandpiper," but as, 

 from all the accounts that are accessible to me, it seems 

 to resemble the Plovers much more closely in habits 

 than the Sandpipers, and is very generally known in 

 the United States as Upland, or Field-Plover, I have 

 ventured, with all due deference to our English autho- 

 rities, to designate it as a Plover. Never having crossed 

 the Atlantic, or had the luck to meet with this bird in 

 Europe, I cannot, of course, give any details concerning 

 it from personal observation, and therefore quote from a 

 recent American work to the effect that our bird breeds 

 on the inland prairies and dry meadows of North 

 America from the fur-countries of Canada to Penn- 

 sylvania, as well as on both sides of the Mississippi. 



