64 BARTRAM^S SANDPIPER. 



This species is twelve inches long, and twenty-one in extent ; 

 the bill is an inch and a half long, slightly bent downwards, and 

 wrinkled at the base, the upper mandible black on its ridge, the 

 lower, as well as the edge of the upper, of a fine yellow; front, 

 stripe over the eye, neck and breast, pale ferruginous, marked with 

 small streaks of black, which, on the lower part of the breast, as- 

 sume the form of arrow heads ; crown black, the plumage slightly 

 skirted with whitish ; chin, orbit of the eye, whole belly and vent 

 pure white; hind head and neck above ferruginous, minutely 

 streaked with black; back and scapulars black, the former slightly 

 skirted with ferruginous, the latter with white; tertials black, bor- 

 dered with white; primaries plain black; shaft of the exterior 

 quill snowy, its inner vane elegantly pectinated with white; secon- 

 daries pale brown, spotted on their outer vanes with black, and 

 tipt with white; greater coverts dusky, edged with pale ferrugi- 

 nous, and spotted with black; lesser coverts pale ferruginous, each 

 feather broadly bordered with white, within which is a concentric 

 semicircle of black; rump and tail coverts deep brown black, 

 slightly bordered with white ; tail tapering, of a pale brown orange 

 color, beautifully spotted with black, the middle feathers centered 

 with dusky; legs yellow, tinged with green; the outer toe joined 

 to the middle by a membrane; lining of the wings elegantly bar- 

 red with black and white ; iris of the eye dark, or blue black, eye 

 very large. The male and female are nearly alike. 



