248 BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



country at an elevation of three thousand feet above 

 the level of the sea. A very interesting notice, on the 

 authority of that gentleman, of the bird during the 

 season of incubation, is given by Mr. Yarrell.* The 

 Indian Archipelago, Borneo, Sumatra, and Timor, 

 are given to it by Temminck. 



" 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 ferruginous ; inter- 

 scapulars nearly black with rufous edges ; scapulars, 

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

 black ; the feathers having broad margins of buffy- 

 white 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 mi- 

 nute dark specks ; sides and front of the neck, and 

 upper parts 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." t 



* Yarrell, ii. p. 641. f Ibid. 



