CHARADRIIDA, 577 
THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
LimfcoLA PLATYRHYNCHA (Temminck). 
The Broad-billed Sandpiper was first made known as a visitor to 
the British Islands by Hoy, who recorded an example shot on May 
25th 1836, on Breydon Broad, Norfolk. This locality afforded a 
second on May 25th 1856, a third on April 23rd 1858 (Zool. p. 6096), 
and a fourth on September sth 1891, while another was killed at 
Cley in August 1895. The late Mr. W. Borrer had a specimen 
obtained near Shoreham in October 1845, and three have since 
been procured near Rye in the autumn or early winter of 1887, 
1895, and 1896; while one was shot at Littlestone, Kent, in Sep- 
tember of the year last mentioned. Sir H. S. Boynton possesses 
one killed at Hornsea Mere, Yorkshire, in April 1863. One, shot 
near Belfast, Ireland, on October 4th 1844, is in the Museum of 
that city. 
It is evident that this species usually migrates to the eastward of 
our islands ; although it breeds no further off than the Dovrefjeld and 
other districts of Scandinavia, and visits the coasts and inland waters 
-of Denmark, Holland (seldom), Germany, France and Switzerland. 
It has not yet been noticed in the Spanish Peninsula, but in Italy 
its occurrences are not infrequent, though irregular, and large flocks 
—which have probably made use of the Brenner Pass—sometimes 
alight in the marshes of Venetia. From Finland and the tundras of 
European Russia, where it nests, a south-easterly line of flight brings 
it to the Black Sea and the Aralo-Caspian region ; Severtzoff 
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