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BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXXVI. FIG. 1. 



Tringa jplatyrJii/ncha, . . Gould. Teximinck. 



This bird is late in laying its eggs; they have been 

 found not yet sat upon on the 24th. of June, and the 

 young still unable to fly the last week in the following 

 month. The nest is placed in a hummock of grass. 



The eggs are, in general, of a deep chocolate colour, 

 sometimes spotted and mottled with a darker shade of 

 the same. They are four in number. 



