168 SNIPES, SANDPII’ERS, ETC. 
     
    
   
   
    
     barred with blaek ', breast and sides washed with bufl‘y and streaked or barred 
     
     with black; belly white or whitish. 1m.~Similar, but. the oehraecous—bufi' 
     
     is deeper. L, 11'50; \V., (3‘50: ’l‘ar.7 1‘90; Ii. 1-15». 
     
    

    
     It’unarl'sr-Tlie white bars on the outer primary will always serve to iden- 
     
     tify this speeies. 
     
    

    
     Ii’vmye.~~l‘astern North Ameriea: breeds locally from Kansas and Vir- 
     
     ginia to Alaska and Nora Seotia; winters over most of South America. 
     
    

    
     Washingtmu enmmon 'l‘. \'., .\pl.: Aug. to Sept. Long Island. uncommon 
     
     S. It. Apl. to Sept. Cambridge, not common '1'. \'., Apl. '15 to May 5; July 
     
     30 to Sept. 15. 
     
    

    
     1124/8. four to five. creamy buti' or white, spotted with reddish brown or 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     chocolate, chiefly at the larger end7 1'50 >< 1-30. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Upland “ Plover" is at, home on grassy plains and pastures. 
     
     It is usually a. shy bird, and can rarely be successfully approached on 
     
     foot. It shows no fear, however, of a man who is riding or driving, 
     
     and when on horseback I have passed within a few yards of birds 
     
     which regarded me with some interest but no alarm. They so closely 
     
     resemble dried grass in color that it is sometimes exceedingly diffi- 
     
     cult to distinguish them from their surroundings. One may ride over 
     
     a prairie upon which, at first glanee, not a Plover is visible, and find, 
     
     after careful scrutiny, that dozens of birds are scattered about him 
     
     feeding. 
     
    

    
     In alighting they streteh their wings to the utmost. high over their 
     
     backs, as if to get. the wrinkles out before gently folding them. When 
     
     flushed they utter a soft, bubbling whistle. During their migra— 
     
     tions one may clearly hear these sweet notes from birds traveling be- 
     
     yond the limits of human vision. Mr. Laugille describes their alarm 
     
     note as a spirited and rapidly uttered qIII‘p-I'p-i‘p-z'p, qm'p-z'p-m—ip, and 
     
     their song, given from the ground. a fence. or even a tree. as chr-r-r-r-r- 
     
     rp~c-p-e—e-€-oo-0-0-0-0-00. He remarks : “ This prolonged, mournful, mel- 
     
     low whistle, more like the whistling of wind than a bird's voice. may 
     
     be heard even in the night. and is one of the most weird and never-to- 
     
     be—forgottcu sounds in Nature.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     262. Tryngites submflcollis ( Viv/NJ. Brrr—nmmsTEn SAND- 
     
     PIPER. Aigbpper parts pale grayish brown. the f‘athers with olive, cen— 
     
     ters; primaries fuseous. the inner half of their inner webs speck/w] with black; 
     
     longer inner wiug‘cm'erts conspicuously marked and tipped with black, then 
     
     white: central iuilsf'eathers fast-nus. outer ones beenming bufi'y. irregularly 
     
     marked and tipped with blaek and bufly; under parts pale ot-hraeeous-bufi', 
     
     tipped with whitish, and with generally eoneealed blaek markings. 1m.— 
     
     Similar, but the upper parts and breast paler. I... H-SO; \V., 5'25: 8.. \70. 
     
    

    
     Ji‘enzarf'ssi In any plumage this bird may be known by the peculiar alteri- 
     
     ling on the inner webs of all the primaries, and also the markings of the under 
     
     wing—emerts. 
     
    

    
     Jfang/e.—“ North America. especially in the interior; breeds in the Yukon