638 



SCOLOPACID-E. 



GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACJD/E. 



THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa plutyrhyncha. Broad-billed Sandpiper, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 

 ,, ,, J3(?cflsseaM pZat]/r?iZ7J7t/e, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 



616. 

 ,, ,, ,, „ ,, ,, vol. iv. p. 403. 



The flatness and brcadtli of the beak in this species has 

 suggested the names by which it is distinguished, and one 

 example of this rare Sandpiper having been killed in Norfolk, 

 and recorded by the late Mr. F. D. Hoy, in the tenth 

 volume of the Magazine of Natural History, the bird is en- 

 titled to a place in this work, and I quote Mr. Hoy's original 

 notice. 



" The Flat-billed Sandpiper Tringa platj/rhi/ncha, and 

 Becasseau platyrhinque of M. Tcmminck"'s Manual, was shot 

 on the 25th of May 1836, on the muddy flats of Breydon 

 Broad. It was in company with some Dunlins and Ring- 

 plovers. From the season of the year, it had probably ac- 



