398 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Genus LIMNOCRYPTES, Kaup. 



JACK SNIPE. 



Limnocryptes galluiula (Linmeus). S.N., i., p. 244 



(1766). 



The Jack Snipe is only an autumn and winter visitor 

 to Kent, and is generally to be found during that time in 

 all the marshy lands of the county, but it is far less 

 abundant than the Snipe. It arrives in Kent about the 

 middle of October, and leaves in March and April. Mr. 

 W. H. Power, in his Birds Observed at Bainham, 1865, 

 says the " first occurred this season on October 13, 

 about which time several made their appearance." One 

 was seen in the Eomney Marsh, December 24, 1905, and 

 often seen in the swampy fields in the Orlestone district. 



Genus LIMICOLA, Koch. 



BEOAD-BILLED SANDPIPEE. 



Limicola platyrliijuclia (Temmiuck)- Man. d'Oni., 

 p. 398 (1815). 



The first record of this species in Kent is that given by 

 Captain Boyd Alexander {Zoologist, 1896, p. 411) : An 

 ""immature female was shot at Littlestone out of a 

 flock of Dunhn. This, I believe, is the first instance on 

 record of this species having been obtained in Kent." 



Mr. L. A. Curtis Edwards records in the Zoologist, 

 1901, that "an immature female of the 'Broad-billed 

 Sandpiper' was procured on August 31 (1901) last, near 

 Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent. This is the second Kentish 

 ■example of this species that I have examined in the flesh." 



