THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER 



Its call-note is low and weak and is repeated several times in succession, either as it 

 trips along or else as it rises to fly away." 



The beautiful pencilled markings to be seen on the under surface of the wing in 

 this species serve to distinguish it. 



The bird in the plate was taken from a specimen in Lord Rothschild's collection, 

 obtained in Kansas, in May. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. 



Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). 

 Plate 67. 



Bartram's Sandpiper, which, according to Lord Lilford, resembles the Plovers 

 much more closely in its habits than the Sandpipers, has been recorded about eleven 

 times in the British Islands. It breeds on the grassy uplands of North America, 

 and migrates in winter to South America. 



The four eggs are laid in some depression in the ground, which is scantily lined 

 with bents or dry leaves, and in colour are pale buffish, blotched and marked with 

 reddish-brown, and purplish-grey. 



Seebohm describes the ordinary note of this bird as "a soft mellow whistle," and 

 its food appears to consist chiefly of beetles, grasshoppers, and other insects obtained 

 on the prairies it frequents. 



THE GREY-RUMPED SANDPIPER. 



Totanus brevipes, Vieillot. 



Two examples of this Sandpiper, a male and female, according to Mr. H. W. 

 Ford-Lindsay {vide Witherby's British Birds, vol. ix. p. 205), were obtained at 

 Rye Harbour, Sussex, in September 19 14. The late H. E. Dresser {A Manual of 

 Palczarctic Birds, vol. ii. p. 793) gives the habitat of this species as " Kamchatka, 

 Eastern Siberia, and Japan, migrating south for the winter to China, the Malay 

 Archipelago, the Papuan Islands, and Australia." 



In summer the general colour of the upper parts is ashy-grey, of the lower white, 

 while the cheeks and neck are streaked with dark markings, and the breast and 



iv. 41 F 



