BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 65 



GRALLA TORES. SCOLOPA CID^E. 



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THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa platyrhyncha. 



Tringa platyrhyncha, Broad-bitted Sandpiper, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 

 Becasseau platyrhinque, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. 



p. 616. 



vol. iv. p. 403. 



THE flatness and breadth of the beak in this species has 

 suggested the names by which it is distinguished, and one 

 example of this rare Sandpiper having been killed in Nor- 

 folk, and recorded by the late Mr. F. D. Hoy, in the 

 tenth volume of the Magazine of Natural History, the bird 

 is entitled to a place in this work, and I quote Mr. Hoy's 

 original notice. 



" The Flat-billed Sandpiper, Tringa platyrhyncha and 

 Becasseau platyrhinque of M. Temminck's Manual, was 

 shot on the 25th of May, 1836, on the muddy flats of Brey- 

 don Broad. It was in company with some Dunlins and 

 Ring-plovers. From the season of the year, it had pro- 

 bably acquired its summer plumage ; and it very closely 



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