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BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER. 
third longest, all free, broadly 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 secondaries very long. Tail rather 
short, nearly even, of twelve feathers. 
BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER. 
Tringa Bartramia, Wils. 
PLATE CCOXXYIL— Male and Female. 
The Bartramian Sandpiper is the most truly terrestrial of its tribe with 
which I am acquainted. It is even more inclined, at all seasons, to keep 
away from the water than the Kildeer Plover, which may often be seen 
wading in shallow pools, or searching along the sandy or muddy margins of 
the shores of the sea, or of fresh-water lakes and streams. Although not 
unfrequently met with in the vicinity of such places, it never ventures to 
wade into them ; and yet the form and length of its legs and feet would 
naturally induce a person not acquainted with its habits to consider it as 
a wading bird. 
The dry upland plains of those sections of Louisiana called Opellousas 
and Attacapas, are amply peopled with this species in early spring, as well 
as in autumn. They arrive there from the vast prairies of Texas and 
Mexico, where they spend the winter, in the beginning of March, or about 
the period of the first appearance of the Martins, Hirundo purpurea , and 
return about the first of August. They are equally abundant on all the 
western prairies on either side of the Missouri, where, however, they arrive 
about a month later than in Louisiana, whence they disperse over the United 
States, reaching the middle districts early in May, and the State of Maine 
by the middle of that month, or about the same period at which they are 
seen in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Some proceed as far north as the 
plains adjoining the Saskatchewan river, where Dr. Richardson met with 
this species in the month of May. 
It has been supposed that the Bartramian Sandpiper never forms large 
