BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 641 



M. Scliinz of Geneva, says, in liis Fauna Helvetica, that 

 this Sandpiper has been taken in the vic'inity of two or three 

 of the hikes of Switzerland, and that these captures have al- 

 ways occurred in the month of August. M. Tcmniinck, 

 mentions that this species is found on several of the islands 

 of the Indian Archipelago, at Borneo, Sumatra, and Timor, 

 and he has been assured that it is also found on the continent 

 of India. 



The adult bird, in the breeding season, has the beak, 

 which is one inch and one sixteenth in length, dark brown 

 at the point, inclining to reddish brown at the base ; irides 

 brown ; from the base of the beak to the eye a dark brown 

 streak ; over that and the eye a white streak, with a brown 

 central longitudinal line ; top of the head brownish black, 

 slightly varied with greyish white, and tinged with ferru- 

 ginous ; inter-scapulars nearly black with rufous edges ; sca- 

 pulars, wing-coverts, lower part of the back, and the tertials, 

 black, the feathers having broad margins of buffy Avhite or 

 rufous ; the primary and secondary quill-feathers black ; the 

 shafts white ; upper tail-coverts black with rufous edges ; the 

 two middle tail-feathers nearly black, longer than the others, 

 pointed and margined with rufous ; the others ash grey, mar- 

 gined with buff colour ; chin nearly white, with minute dark 

 specks ; sides and front of the neck, and the upper part of 

 the breast greyish white, varied with black spots and tinged 

 with bufFy red ; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts white ; 

 legs, toes, and claws, greenish black. The whole length of 

 the adult bird six inches and three-eighths ; wing, from the 

 carpal joint to the end of the first, which is the longest fea- 

 ther, three inches and seven eighths ; length of the tarsus 

 five- eighths. 



The young bird so closely resembles the parent in its 

 plumage at this season, that it is unnecessary to describe 

 it. 



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