BEOAD-BILLED SANDPIPEB 



the same locality (A. Patterson, ' Zoologist,' 1901, p. 102). 

 Several birds have been taken in Sussex, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of Bye, while examples have also occurred in 

 Yorkshire. The two latest recorded captures appear to be as 

 follows: One, an immature female, taken near Littlestone- 

 on-Sea, Kent, on August 31st, 1901 (L. A. Curtis Edwards, 

 'Zoologist,' 1901, p. 390); the other, an immature male, 

 taken near Bexhill, in Sussex, on September 14th of the 

 same year (W. Buskin Butterfield, ' Zoologist,' 1901, p. 

 390). 



From Ireland, but one specimen has been recorded, 

 namely, a bird shot on Belfast Lough, co. Antrim, on 

 October 4th, 1844 (Thompson, Nat. Hist. IreL, p. 282). 



There are no records of its occurrence in Scotland. 



DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 



PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial. Top of head, back, 

 scapulars, and wings, dark brown, mixed with white and 

 buff; throat, breast, and flanks, white, tinged with rufous 

 and speckled with brown ; abdomen, white ; primaries and 

 central tail-feathers, blackish ; outer tail-feathers, pale brown. 



Adult female nuptial. Similar to the male plumage, 

 except that the back is paler in colour, and the spotting is 

 less profuse on the breast and abdomen. 



Adult winter, male and female. Back and wings, ash- 

 grey ; there is a narrow white wing-bar and some white 

 on the upper tail-coverts. 



Immature, male and female. Besembles the adult 

 nuptial plumage, but the feathers of the back and wings are 

 more broadly margined with dull white. 



BEAK. Dusky greenish- black ; thick at the base, flat 

 and wide, and decurved near the tip. 



FEET. Dark olive-colour. 



IEIDES. Blackish-brown. 



EGGS. Greenish-brown, mottled with umber : clutch, 

 four. 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH ... ... ... 6'5 in. 



WING 4-25 



BEAK 1'2 



TARSO-METATAKSUS ... ... 0*75 ,, 



EGG ... 1-2 X 0'9 in. 



