Subgenus LIMICOLA. 

 Bill very high at the base, then suddenly flattened and depressed to the tip, which is bent 

 down in both mandibles ; gonys ridged ; a fine groove adjacent to the edges of both mandibles ; 

 nostrils oval and oblique, placed in a depressed membrane. Otherwise as in Tringa ; the hind 



toe a little longer. 



LIMICOLA PLATYKHYNCHA. 



(THE BROAD-BILLED STINT.) 



Kumenius pygmceus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 713 (1790, nee Linn.). 



Tringa platyrhyncha, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 616 (1820); Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 331 



(1837) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 269 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 



1854, xiv. p. 265 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 692 (1864) ; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, 



p. 49 (1864); Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 474; Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1185 



(1873); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 244, et 1874, p. 298 ; Armstrong, ibid. 1876, p. 343 ; 



David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 470 (1877). 

 Tringa pygmcea (Lath.), Von Middendorff, Sibir. Reise, ii. p. 223 (1853). 

 Liviicola platyrhyncha (Temm.), Salvadori, Ucc. di Born. p. 222 (1874); Dresser, B. of Eur. 



pt. 51, 52 (1876); Hume, Str. Feath. (B. of Tenass.), 1878, p. 461 ; Hume, ibid. 1878, 



vii. p. 487 ; id. ibid. 1879, viii. (List of Ind. B.), p. 113. 

 ILimicola sibirica, Dresser, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 674. 

 Le plus petit des Courtis, Sonn.; Pygmy Curlew, Lath.; The Broad-billed Sandpiper oi some. 



Adult female (Ceylon, Feb. 21, 1879). Length (from skin) 6-4 inches; wing 4-2; tail 1"8; tarsus 0-85 ; hind toe and 



claw 0-78 : bill to gape 1-2S. 

 Note. The bill is flattened in this species, and bent down at 0-3 inch from the tip. 



Adult male (Oland). Length (from skin) (J-5 inches ; wing 4 - 3 ; tail 1*8; tarsus 0-8; middle toe and claw OS ; bill 



to gape 1*2. 

 Iris brown ; bill black, slightly pale at the base beneath ; legs brown. 



Winter plumage (Ceylon). Head, hind neck, and back grey-brown, the centres of the feathers darker than the edges ; 

 Lower back, rump, and centre tail-feathers brownish black, with pale tips to the feathers; scapulars tipped with 

 w bite, and with black shaft-streaks ; least wing-coverts brown, finely edged with greyish ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish at the centre, then paling into grey, with deep margins of white; primaries and secondaries 

 blackish brown, with whitish shafts ; primary-coverts blackish ; remaining tail-feathers greyish brown, the inner 

 webs pale, that of the lateral feather almost white. 



Lores dark grey, surmounted by a broad white stripe starting from the bill (where it confines the brown of the forehead 

 into a point) and passing over the eye ; cheeks and ear-coverts streaked finely with brown; beneath, from the 

 chin to the under tail-coverts, white ; under wing-coverts white ; feathers beneath the metacarpal joint edged 

 with brown ; sides of the neck streaked with brown. 



An example from China (24th November) has the superciliary bands less conspicuous, the face more streaked with 

 brown, and likewise the chest slightly striated. 



Summer plumage (Oland, 24th May). — General cliaracter. Head, back, and scapulars margined with dark rufous and 

 white ; top of head, occiput, lower hind neck, back, scapulars, and tertials deep black, most of the feathers edged 

 with rufous, and the scapulars and interscapulars with broad lateral white margins ; hind-neck feathers edged 



