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marginate, with numerous scutella. Claws small, slightly 
arched, compressed, rather obtuse. Plumage soft, blended, 
on the back distinct. Wings very long, pointed ; primaries 
tapering, obtuse, the first longest ; one of the inner second- 
aries very long. Tail rather short, nearly even, of twelve 
feathers. 
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328. 1. Tringa Bartramia, Wils. Bartramian Sandpiper. 
— Highland Plover. Papabote. 
Plate CCCIIL Male and Female. 
Bill scarcely longer than the head^ slender, slightly deflected at the 
end, yellowish -green, with the tip dusky ; legs rather long, light 
greyish-yellow, toes greenish ; upper part of head dark brown, with a 
median pale yellowish-brown line, of which colour are the margins of 
the feathers ; hind part and sides of the neck light yellowish-brown, 
streaked with dusky ; fore part of neck and breast paler, with longi- 
tudinal pointed dusky streaks, becoming transverse on the breast and 
sides ; throat and the rest of the lower parts yellowish-white, except 
the axillars and lower wing-coverts which are white, banded with 
brownish-black ; on the upper parts the feathers dark brown glossed 
with green, their margins with alternate yellowish-brown and dusky 
spots ; the hind part of the back darker, without spots ; alula, primary 
coverts, and primary quills, blackish -brown, the inner webs crossed 
by white bands until about an inch from the end ; the shaft of first 
quill brownish- white, of the rest brown ; secondaries greyish-brown, 
the outer margins pale brown, with dusky spots, the inner darker ; 
two middle feathers of tail dark olive, tinged with grey, transversely 
barred with black, the last bar arrow-shaped, the margins cream-co- 
loured ; the next feather on each side lighter, and tinged with yel- 
lowish-red, the rest gradually lighter, the outer white, all barred with 
black. 
Male, 12^, 22. Female, 18, 22f . 
From Texas along the coast to Nova Scotia. Breeds from Mary- 
land northward to the Saskatchewan. In vast flocks in Louisiana, Op- 
pelousas, and the Western Prairies, in autumn and spring. Rare in 
Kentucky. 
Bartram Sandpiper, Tringa Bartramia, Wils. Amer. Orn. v, vii. p. 63. 
Totanus Bartramius, Bonap. Syn. p. 262. 
Totanus Bartramius, Bartram Tatler, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 391. 
Bartramian Tatler, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 169. 
Bartramian Sandpiper, Totanus Bartramius, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 24. 
329. 2. Tringa Islandica, Linn. Ash-coloured Sandpiper. 
— Knot. Grey-back, Red-breasted Sandpiper. 
Plate CCCXV. Summer and winter plumage. 
