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English
Etymology
Named for American naturalist William Bartram, with suffix -ian. See also sandpiper.
Noun
Bartramian sandpiper (plural Bartramian sandpipers)
- (archaic) An upland sandpiper of species Bartramia longicauda, a bird native to the Americas.
1891, Elmer T. Judd, “Dakota game birds”, in Forest and Stream, page 169:I first saw willets and bartramian sandpipers—called plover—the 13th. I saw a good many mallards, some widgeon and bluewing teal, four ruddy ducks (the only ones seen during the year), hooded mergansers, two sandhill cranes, and flocks of geese that looked very large to me, and they were when compared with what I had seen in old Connecticut.
2008, Joel Greenberg, Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing, →ISBN, page 654:But still on the pastures and prairies of the Illinois country are born, each year, a new generation of Bartramian sandpipers, shore larks, yellow-winged sparrows and grass finches—the names by which we knew them in a day long gone.
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