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LIMICOLM 



SCOLOPACID.E. 



SCOLOPA CID.E. 



LiMicoLA PLATYRHYNCHA (Temmiuck*)- 



THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa platyrhynclia. 



LiMicoLA, KocJif. — Bill much longer than the head, nearly as broad as high 

 at the base, very flat and wide up to the tip, where it is gradually rounded to 

 an obtuse point, with the terminal portion slightly decurved ; nostrils oval, 

 oblique, placed in a depressed membrane. Wings long, pointed, the first quills 

 feathei the longest ; inner secondaries long and pointed. Tail moderate, doubly 

 cmarginate. Legs rather short, slender, bare on the lower part of the tibia ; 

 tarsus scutellate ; the three anterior toes long and slender, slightly webbed at 

 the base ; the hind toe moderate. 



The Broad-billed Sandpiper, which is distinguished 

 from other species by the character which its uame suggests, 

 was first made known as a visitor to the British Islands by 

 the late Mr. Hoy, who recorded an example shot on the 

 muddy flats of Breydon Water, Norfolk, on the 25tli May, 

 183G (Mag. Nat. Hist. x. p. 116), in company with some 

 Dunlins and Ring-plovers, j Since that date a second 



* Tringa platynncha (misprint), Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 398 (1815). 



t System der baierischen Zoologie, i. p. 316 (1816). 



t Mr. Stevenson states (B. Norfolk, ii. p. 360) that there is no evidence of 

 this specimen ever having been in Mr. Hoy's possession, nor has he been able to 

 ascertain what became of it. 



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