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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
on the breast, forming a double transverse band; the feathers 
on the side barred ; the rest of the lower parts and lower wing 
coverts white, banded with brownish-black. On the upper 
parts the feathers are dark brown, glossed with green, with rich 
cream-colored margins ; the rump darker. On the margins of 
the scapulars, within the pale edge, is a series of dusky spots 
which, toward the end, become continuous. 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 the first quill white, those of the rest dusky. Secon¬ 
daries grayish-brown, their outer margins pale brown with dusky 
spots; the inner darker. The two middle feathers of the tail 
are dark olive, tinged with gray, transversely barred with black, 
the last bar arrow-shaped, the margins light cream-color, the 
next feather on each side lighter, and tinged with yellowish- 
red ; the rest gradually lighter, the outer white, all barred with 
black. 
“ Length to the end of tail, 12^ inches ; to the end of wings, 
111; to the end of the claws, 13|; extent of wings, 22 ; wing 
from flexure, 7; tail, 3f ; base part of tibia, rn ; tarsus, 1& ; 
first toe, T 2 ; claw, 2 * ; bill along the ridge, 1^ ; along the edge 
of lower mandible, Iff ; weight, 6oz. 
u Female. 
“ The female is a little larger, and weighs 7oz., but resem¬ 
bles the male in color. The individual of which the weight is 
here given, was very fat; but 1 have never met with any that 
weighed three-fourths of a pound, as described by Wilson. 
“ 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 water than the Kildeer Plo¬ 
ver, which may often be seen along the sandy or muddy mar¬ 
gin 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 
