Bartramian sandpiper

English Etymology Named for American naturalist William Bartram, with suffix en -ian. See also en sandpiper. Noun en archaic An upland sandpiper of species Bartramia longicauda species, a bird native to the Americas. en 1891 Elmer T. Judd Dakota game birds Forest and Stream 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=XkghAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA169 en 2008 Joel Greenberg Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing 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. 9780226306612 References en eponyms en Scolopacids