PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Tringa pectoralis. 



Accidental visitor; a score British records. Breeds in arctic America. 

 Winters in most parts of the Neotropical Region. 



LITTLE STINT. Tringa minuta. 



Frequent spring and autumn migrant. Breeds in arctic Europe and 

 North-west Siberia, from Lapland to the valley of the Yenisei. Winters 

 in Africa, Persia, India, and Ceylon. 



AMERICAN STINT. Tringa minutilla. 



Accidental visitor ; only two British records (Cornwall and Devonshire) . 

 Breeds in arctic America. Winters in the Southern States, Mexico, the 

 West Indies, Central America^ and tropical South America. 



BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. Tringa platyrhyncha. 



Rare spring and autumn migrant to England and Ireland ; only six or 

 seven British records. Breeds in arctic Europe and Siberia. Winters in 

 the basin of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and South Asia. 



BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. Limosa melanura. 



Rare spring and autumn migrant ; bred on the Norfolk marshes sixty 

 years ago. Breeds in Central Europe, Turkestan, and South Siberia. 

 Winters in the basin of the Mediterranean, South Asia, the Malay Archipe- 

 lago, and North Australia. Eastern examples are, on an average, smaller 

 than Avestern ones. 



BAR-TAILED GODWIT. Limosa rufa. 



Common spring and autumn migrant. Breeds in arctic Europe and 

 Siberia. Winters on the shores of the Mediterranean and Arabian Seas, 

 and in the Malay Archipelago, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, including 

 New Zealand. Eastern examples generally differ slightly from western 

 ones. 



AMERICAN SNIPE-BILLED SANDPIPER. Macrorhamphus griseus. 



Accidental visitor to England and Scotland ; more than a dozen records. 

 Breeds in arctic America. Winters in subtropical North America and 

 tropical South America. Eastern examples differ slightly from western 

 ones. 



