Genus — B AKTRAMIA. 
Bartramia Lesson, Traite d’Om., p. 553, 1831 . . Type B. longicauda. 
Also spelt Bartramius Bonaparte, Revue Mag. Zool., Ser. II., Vol. IX., p. 59, 1857. 
Actidurus Bonaparte, Giom. Arcad. (Roma), Vol. LII., 
p. 208, 1831 . . . . . . . . . . . . Type B. longicauda. 
Also spelt Actiturus Bonaparte, Comp. List Birds Europe and N. Amer., p. 51, 1838. 
Euliga NuttaU, Manuel Ornith. U.S. and Canada, 
Vol. II., p. 167, 1834 . . . . . . . . . . Type B. longicauda. 
Also spelt Euligia Cabanis, Jorum, fiir Omith. 1866, p. 418. 
Medium Totanine Waders with short bills, long wings, long tails, long legs, and 
long toes. 
The culmen is short and straight, the tip sHghtly swollen and decurved ; 
the groove in the upper mandible extends for more than half the length of 
the culmen, which is scarcely longer than the middle toe and claw and 
less than two-thirds the length of the metatarsus. 
The wings are very long, with the first primary longest. The tail is very 
long and wedge-shaped, more than half the length of the wing, and three 
times the length of the culmen. The metatarsus is more than half the length 
of the tail but less than twice the middle toe ; the exposed portion of 
the tibia is more than half the length of the metatarsus and equal to the 
middle toe. Tarsus regularly scuteUated before and behind. 
The toes are long, and the middle toe is more than half the length of the 
metatarsus and little less than the culmen ; the webbing between the toes 
is as in the preceding Totanoid genera. A long hind toe is present. 
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