BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER 283 
the same locality (A. Patterson, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1901, p. 102). 
Several birds have been taken in Sussex, especially in the 
neighbourhood of Rye, while examples have also occurred in 
Yorkshire. The two latest recorded captures appear to be as 
follows :—One, an immature female, taken near Littlestone- 
on-Sea, Kent, on August 31st, 1901 (L. A. Curtis Edwards, 
‘ Zoologist,’ 1901, p. 390); the other, an immature male, 
taken near Bexhill, in Sussex, on September 14th of the 
same year (W. Ruskin Butterfield, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1901, p. 
390). 
From Ireland, but one specimen has been recorded, 
namely, a bird shot on Belfast Lough, co. Antrim, on 
October 4th, 1844 (Thompson, Nat. Hist. Irel., p. 282). 
There are no records of its occurrence in Scotland. 
DESCRIPTIYE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial.—Top of head, back, 
scapulars, and wings, dark brown, mixed with white and 
buff; throat, breast, and flanks, white, tinged with rufous 
and speckled with brown ; abdomen, white; primaries and 
central tail-feathers, blackish ; outer tail-feathers, pale brown. 
Adult female nuptial.—Similar to the male plumage, 
except that the back is paler in colour, and the spotting is 
less profuse on the breast and abdomen. 
Adult winter, male and female——Back and wings, ash- 
grey; there is a narrow white wing-bar and some white 
on the upper tail-coverts. 
Immature, male and female. — Resembles the adult 
nuptial plumage, but the feathers of the back and wings are 
more broadly margined with dull white. 
BeEAK. Dusky greenish-black; thick at the base, flat 
and wide, and decurved near the tip. 
FEET. Dark olive-colour. 
Ir1pEs. Blackish-brown. 
Eaes. Greenish-brown, mottled with umber: clutch, 
four. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
TOTAL LENGTH Groene 
WING TIS) oe 
BEAK x: LE Or ee 
TARSO-METATARSUS Ono) 
Kee 2x 079 1m 
