UPLAND PLOVER. A89 
PHILOMACHUS PUGNAX (L.) Gr. 
uff; Meeve. 
Philomachus pugnac, WHEATON, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 83. 
Tringa pugnax, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., 1766, 247. 
Philomachus pugnax, GRAY, Genera. 
Male in the breeding season with the face bare and beset with papillw, and the neck 
with an extravagant ruff of elongated feathers; plumage endlessly variabie in color ; 
length, about 10; wing, 64-7; tail, 24-3; bill, 14; tarsus, 12; middle toe and claw, 14; 
female, smaller, the head fully feathered and no ruff. 
Habitat, Northern Europe and Asia. Accidental in United States. 
Less than a dozen instances of the occurrence of this bird in North 
America are recorded. In 1858, Mr. Cassin gives it as accidental on 
Long Island. Mr. Brewer (Am. Nat. 1872, 306), records its occurrences in 
Massachusetts, and 1876 (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, 19), its capture 
in Maine. The only record of its occurrence in Ohio, is my own, above 
cited, as follows : 
Dr. Theodore Jasper, of this city, obtained, November 10, 1872, at the Licking Reser- 
voir, thirty miles east of Columbus, a Wader which remained unidentified till recently. 
I was of the opinion that it would prove to be either Philomachus pugnax, or a nonde- 
script. On communicating my views to Mr. H. W. Henshaw, of Washington, he kindly 
offere:} to compare the specimen with others in the National Museum. He writes that 
the bird, which was a male (probably young), is positively identical with specimens of 
that spscies in the collection of the National Museum.” 
Genus ACTITURUS. Bonaparte. 
Bill short, straight, about as long asthe head, grooved three-fourths its length, the 
gape very deep reaching to nearly below the eyes, the feathers extending on the upper 
mandible beyond those on the lower, which do not fill the interramal space ; tail very 
long, more than half the wing, graduated; tarsi much longer than middle toe and 
claw ; tibiz bare near the length of the latter. 
ACTITURUS BARTRAMIUS (Wils.) Bp. 
Bartramian Sandpiper; Upland Plover. 
Totanus bartramius, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., iv, 1838, 24—KuirTLAND, Ohio Geuvlog. Surv., 
1838, 165, 185. 
Tringa bartramia, AUDUBON, B. Am., v, 1842, 248. 
Actiturus bartramius, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 360; Reprint, 11; Food 
_ of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 573; Reprint, 13.—Coprz, Zoolog. 
Sketch of Ohio, Walling and Gray’s Atlas of Ohio, 1872, 25.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds 
of Cin., 1877, 15; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 183 ; Reprint, 17. 
Tringa bartramia, WiLson, Am. Orn.. vii, 1813, 63. 
Totanus bartramius, TEMMINCK, Man., ii, 1820, 650. 
Actiturus bartramius, BONAPARTE, Saggio, 1831. 
