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British species, but of which we have little to write. It is 

 an American species, but has in a few instances been met 

 with in this country. "The regions where it incubates/' 

 Sir William Jardine writes, "seem yet to be undiscovered." 



THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. Tringa platyrliyncha. 

 This is, again, a rare bird in Britain, but its breeding habits 

 have been satisfactorily traced, and the account of them pre- 

 sented to the public. It appears to me by no means an 

 uncommon species in Sweden and Norway, in which latter 

 country M. Dann found it breeding at an elevation of three 

 thousand feet above the sea. The nest was placed on a 

 tuft of grass. Pour eggs were taken from a nest,-two of 

 which, figured by Mr. Hewitson, differ greatly ; one of them 

 having some resemblance to the egg of the Dunlin, while 

 the other is apparently thickly freckled over with minute 

 markings of a reddish-brown tint, and sprinkled with a few 

 decided spots of a darker colour. 



SCHINTZ'S SANDPIPER. Tringa Schintzii. America is 

 believed to be the stronghold of this species, where it ap- 

 pears not to be very uncommon. It is said to frequent 

 marshy shores, and the borders of lakes and brackish waters, 

 and in such situations it is described as placing its nest 

 upon some knoll or gentle elevation. The eggs are four in 



