BARTRAM’S SANDPIPER Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein)
Reading edition
This is another North American species, of which some eight or ten examples have been procured in this country.
Its general colour is pale tawny buff, barred and mottled with blackish. For a Sandpiper its tail is distinctly long and barred. Length 11·5 in.; bill 1·2 in.; wing 6·6 in.
[We may note here that the Sandpipers we have hitherto been dealing with have had the tail plain, whereas in the remaining ones, which belong to the genus Totanus, the tail is barred.]
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