bartram's sandpiper. 
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moUusca, and occasionally upon small fish and their 
fry : they moult spring and autumn, and their winter 
plumage differs but slightly from that of summer. 
The beak is stronger than that of the Godwits, 
Woodcocks, and Snipes, which enables the birds to 
find their sustenance on the earth, amongst stones, &c. 
Two or three sectional divisions are required among 
the birds constituting the present genus ; but as I have 
been unable to examine each species, I have not at- 
tempted to divide them, except in separating the last, 
which may probably be found at a future period to 
form a new genus. 
A. Digitis bast via^ pahnatis. 
A. The toes scarcely palmated at their base. 
bartram's sandpiper. 
(Totanus Bartramia.) 
To. Jusco-nigricans, Jlavo maculata, genis, collo pectoreque Jla- 
vescentibus nigro lineatis, ventre, crisso femoribusque albis, caudd 
elongatd, rectricibus lateraiibus isabeUinis nigro Jasciatis. 
Blackish-brown Sandpiper spotted with yellow, the cheeks, neck, 
and breast yellowish, striped with black, the belly, vent, and 
thighs white, the tail elongated, its outer feathers Isabella colour 
striped with black, 
Tringa longicauda. Becks. Temm. man. d'Orn. 2 Edit. ii. 651. 
Totanus Bartramia. Temm. I. c. 
Bartram's Sandpiper. (Tringa Bartramia.) Wils. Amer. Orn. 
V. vii. 63.75^.59./. 2. 
Chevalier a longue queue. Temm. I. c. 
