44 BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXXVI. FIGURE I. 



Tringa plalyrhvncha, GOULD TEMMINCK. 



nnHIS bird is late in laying its eggs; they have been 

 -*- found not yet sat upon 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 eggs are, in general, of a deep chocolate- 

 colour, sometimes spotted and mottled with a darker 

 shade of the same. They are four in number. 



