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BARTRAM^S SANDPIPER. 
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 sti'eaks of black, which, on the lower part of the breast, as- 
sume 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 ferruginous, minutely 
streaked with black; back and scapulars black, the former slightly 
skirted with ferruginous, the latter with white; tertials black, bor- 
dered with white; primaries plain black; shaft of the exterior 
quill snowy, its inner vane elegantly pectinated with white ; secon- 
daries pale brown, spotted on their outer vanes with black, and 
tipt with white ; greater coverts dusky, edged with pale ferrugi- 
nous, and spotted with black ; lesser coverts pale ferruginous, each 
feather broadly bordered with white, within which is a concentric 
semicircle of black ; rump and tail-coverts deep brown black, 
slightly bordered with white; tail tapermg, of a pale brown orange 
color, beautifully spotted with black, the middle feathers centred 
with dusky; legs yellow, tinged with green ; the outer toe joined 
to the middle -by a membrane; lining of the wings beautifully bar- 
red with black and white ; iris of the eye dark, or blue black, eye 
very large. The male and female are nearly alike. 
