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Family CHAEADRIID^. Genus TRINGA. 



Subfamily SCOLOPACINJE. 



BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



TRINGA PL ATYKHYNCHA. Temminck. 



Tringa platyrhyncha, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 398 (1815)* ; Macgill. Brit. B. iv. 



p. 224 (1852) ; Seebohrn, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 197 (1885) ; Dixon, Nests and Eggs 



Non-indig. Brit. B. p. 264 (1894) ; Seebohm, Col. Fig. Eggs Brit. B. p. 147, pi. 40 



(1896). 

 Limicola platyrhyncha (Temm.), Dresser, B. Eur. viii. p. 3, pi. 545 (1876) ; Yarrell, 



Brit. B. ed. 4, iii. p. 362 (1883) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. pt. xxiv. (1893) ; 



Sharpe, Handb. B. Gt. Brit. iii. p. 223 (1896) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. 



p. 612 (1896). 



Geographical distribution. British: The Broad-billed Sandpiper 

 is a rare straggler to our Islands on spring and autumn passage. The claim of 

 this species to rank as " British " rests on the following recorded instances of 

 its occurrence. England: Norfolk (five examples), May, 1836, May, 1856, 

 April, 1858, September, 1891, August, 1895 : Sussex (four examples), October, 

 1845, August, 1887, Autumn, 1895, Autumn, 1896 ; Yorkshire (one example), 

 April, 1863. Scotland: No instance of its occurrence on record. Ireland: 

 (one example), Belfast Bay, October, 1844. Foreign: Palacarctic region; 

 Oriental region in winter. This Sandpiper is very locally distributed during 

 summer ; and although found from the Atlantic to the Pacific, its breeding area 

 is comparatively unknown. It breeds commonly on the Scandinavian fells as 

 far south as lat. 60, and in Finland. These are apparently the only known 

 breeding grounds of this species, but it has been met with near Lake Baikal and 

 on the southern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk. It occasionally occurs on the coasts 

 of Europe and Japan on migration, and winters in the basin of the Mediterranean, 

 North Africa (extending to Egypt, and occasionally to Madagascar, although we 

 may remark that it is not included in Mr. Sibree's list of birds of that island), 

 the Mekran coast, and Northern India (accidentally to Ceylon and the Andaman 

 Islands). It also visits during the cold season, Burmah, the Malay Peninsula, 

 Java, the Philippine Islands, Formosa, and China. Perhaps a more unsatisfac- 

 tory bit of geographical distribution cannot be found throughout the class Aves ! 



Allied forms. None of sufficient propinquity to call for notice. 

 Spell platyrincha in the work here referred to. 



