Birda of Bristol County, Mass. 
F,W. Andros. 
Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.), Bartramian 
Sandpiper. Migrant, rare. 
O.&O. XII. Sept. 1837 p.139 
Limicoi ae in Bristol County. 
H. F. Dexter, Dartmouth, Mass. 
Bartramian Sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda. 
A few regularly observed in different sections 
of the county, but in no great numbers. 
O.&O. XII. Sept. 1337 p.I48 
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nr. Wmohendon, Mass. Wm. Brewster 
6. Bartramia longicauda. 
V, Oct,, 1888. p. 389 
Mr. S. Frank Dexter reports from Chatham, Mass. : 
This year there was no regular flight of Plover, as noticed 
annually for four years past. From Aug. 25th to Sept. 12tli, 
they passed in small bunches. 
O.&O. X. Oct. 1885. p, /6 0 
Breeding of the Upland Plover on 
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Mr. J. C. Cahoori expresses himself as “ not 
positive” that the Upland Plover breeds on 
Cape Cod. 
It may be of interest to him and other readers 
of the “O. & O.” to know that the Upland, or 
“ Grass Plover” as it is there called, is abun- 
dant on Nantucket Island and breeds there. 
I have in my collection a nice set of three eggs 
taken near Siaseonset, Nantucket, July 18, 1880 
from a deserted nest in a newly mown hayfleld. 
The eggs were addled and I think the bird had 
deserted the nest on account of the grass being 
cut, leaving the nest so exposed that the eggs 
could be seen twenty yards away. 
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C-eorg-e H. M*ck*y. 
■Gleueral Notes. 
Bartramia longicauda. — May i, 1891, I saw in the western part of 
the island four Bartramian Sandpipers, and shot a pair of them, male 
and female. They were in beautiful plumage. I have reason to believe 
that a few of these birds breed regularly here every year, the nest, eggs 
and young having been taken. They also breed on Tuckernuck Island. 
When the nest is discovered the female exhibits much solicitude, hovering 
in near proximity. "One of the birds seen by me alighted on a rail fence, 
which I have frequently observed them do before. In May they will at 
times mount up into the air, say one hundred to one hundred and fifty 
feet, where they wiil quiver in nearly the same place and give vent to a 
song, or perhaps I might say a good clear whistle with a varied trill of 
three or four notes, lasting ten or twelve seconds. I have never known 
of their uttering it at any other season of the year than in the spring. At 
Essex, Mass., April 28, 1892, one of my friends saw one flying. . 
Auk 9 .July, 1892. p. 305-6. 
