Genus LXXIII. TRINGA. SANDPIPER. 
Species I. T. BARTRAMIA* 
BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER. 
[Plate LIX. Fig. 2.] 
This bird being, as far as I can discover, a new species, undescribed 
by any former author, I have honored it with the name of my very 
worthy friend, near whose Botanic Gardens, on the banks of the river 
Schuylkill, I first found it. On the same meadows I have since shot 
several other individuals of the species, and have thereby had an oppor- 
tunity of taking an accurate drawing, as well as description of it. 
Unlike most of their tribe, these birds appeared to prefer running 
about among the grass, feeding on beetles, and other winged insects. 
There were three or four in company ; they seemed extremely watchful, 
silent, and shy, so that it was always with extreme difficulty I could 
approach them. 
These birds are occasionally seen there during the months of August 
and September, but whether they breed near, I have not been able to 
discover. Having never met with them on the seashore, I am per- 
suaded that their principal residence is in the interior, in meadows, and 
such like places. They run with great rapidity, sometimes spreading 
their tail, and dropping their wings, as birds do who wish to decoy you 
from their nest ; when they alight, they remain fixed, stand very erect, 
and have two or three sharp whistling notes as they mount to fly. 
They are remarkably plump birds, weighing upwards of three-cpuarters 
of a pound ; their flesh is superior, in point of delicacy, tenderness and 
flavor, to any other of the tribe with which I am acquainted. 
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, assume 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, ferrugi- 
nous, minutely streaked with black ; back and scapulars black, the 
* Totanus Bartramius, Temm. Man.d' Orn. p. 650. 
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