BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 61 



GRA LLA TORES. SCOLOPA CIDM. 





THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa platyrliyncha. 



Tringa platyrhynclia, Broad-billed Sandpiper, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii. 

 Btcasseau platyrliinque, TEMM. Man. d"0rnith. 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 platyrliyncha, and 

 Becasseau platyrJiinque of M. Temminck's Manual, was 

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

 Breydon Broad. It was in company with some Dunlins 

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



