BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER 



PLATE CLXXVI. FIGURE I. 



Tringa platyrhyncha, . . . GOULD. TEMMINCK. 

 Limicola platyrhy ncha, . . , DRESSER. 



THIS bird, a rare straggler to England, is late in laying 

 its eggs ; they have been found not incubated on 

 the 24th of June, and the young still unable to fly the last 

 week in the following month. 



The nest is placed in a hummock of grass, the lining 

 being suited to the colour of the eggs, which are, in general, 

 of a deep chocolate, sometimes spotted and mottled with a 

 darker shade of the same. They are four in number. 



One brood only appears to be reared in the year ; both 

 birds assist in the work of incubation. 



