282 SCOLOPACIDiE. 



tuted respecting the relative numbers in the eastern and western 

 island. My impression, however, is, that not at all the same dis- 

 parity exists that does in the case of the common snipe ; — that 

 there is a much greater similarity in the numbers of jack snipe in 

 the two islands, than there is in that of the Scolopax gattinago. 



THE BEOAD-BILLED SANDPIPEB. 



Tringa platyrhynca, Temm. 

 Numenius pygmaus, Lath. 



Has been once obtained. 



To the following notice of its occurrence which I published 

 in the 'Annals of Natural History ' for 1845 (vol. xv. p. 309) 

 I can ouly now add that a second specimen has since been pro- 

 cured in England; at Shoreham, Sussex, in the end of October 

 1845.* 



Of the broad-billed sandpiper only one specimen is recorded 

 as met with in Great Britain. It was noticed by Mr. Hoy in the 

 first volume of Charlesworth's ' Magazine of Natural History ' as 

 having been "shot on the 25th of May 1836, on the muddy flats 

 of Breydon Broad, Norfolk, in company with some dunlins and 

 ring plover." In a locality of a similar nature — the oozy banks 

 of Belfast Bay — a Tringa platyrhyncha was killed on the 4th of 

 October 1844, with eleven golden plover and seven or eight 

 dunlins at the same shot from a swivel-gun. 



It is a male bird, and larger than the English specimen, but of 

 about equal size with that described by Temminck. The following are 



its measurements! : — 



Inch. Line. 



Length (stuffed specimen) 7 



of wing from carpus to end of quills . . . 4 3£ 



of tarsus 11 



of middle toe and nail 10 



* Mr. W. Borrer, Jun., in ' Zoologist,' vol. iv. p. 1394. 



f The taxidermist noted the specimen before being skinned to be in length 6| 

 inches, breadth 13 inches ; weight 1 oz. 4£ drachms. 



