TEINGA. 



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TRINGA PLATYRHYNCHA. 



BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Tringa supracaudalibus centralibus et secuudariis interioribus vix albo notatis : rostro quam tarsus Diagnosis. 

 vel quam alee pars quarta longiore. 



It is not known that Eastern birds differ in any way from Western examples. 



Tringa platyrincha, Temminck, Man. d'Orn. p. 398 (1815). 

 Tringa eloroides, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 463 (1819). 

 Pelidna platyrhincha {Temm.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 50 (1838). 

 Limicola platyrhincha (Temm.), Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus. iii. p. 107 (1844). 

 Limicola hartlaubi, Verreaux, Vinson's Voy. Madag., Ann. B, p. 5 (1865). 

 Limicola sibirica, Dresser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 674. 



Limicola pygmssa (Lath.), apud Bechstein, Koch, Naumann, Keyserling §■ Blasius, Savi, 

 Schlegel, fyc. 



Variations. 



Synonymy. 



Plates. — Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 75 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pi. 545. 



Habits. — Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 197. 



Eggs.— Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 27. figs. 10, 11, 12. 



The Broad-billed Sandpiper may always be recognized by its long, flat, and curiously 

 shaped bill, which is more than a fourth of the length of the wing, and is slightly widened 

 towards the middle l . To make the diagnosis complete it is only necessary to add little or 

 no white on the secondaries and upper tail-coverts. 



The Broad-billed Sandpiper is a very local bird during the breeding-season, but its 

 range extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Wolley found it breeding near Muonioniska 

 in lat. 68°; and on the Scandinavian mountains it breeds in considerable abundance as far 

 south as lat. 60°. There appears to be no foundation for the statement that it has occurred 

 at Archangel. Harvie Brown and I did not meet with it in the Petchora, but Bogdanow 

 records it from the Volga ; Sabanaeff does not record it from the Ural ; neither did Finsch 

 meet with it in the valley of the Obb. It has not been recorded by any Siberian traveller 

 from the Yenesay ■ neither did Middendorff meet with it on the Taimyr Peninsula. 

 Dybowski obtained a single example near Lake Baikal ; and Middendorff only met with it 



Literature. 



Specific 

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Geographi- 

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1 The alleged bare chin of this species (Lunel, Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1865, p. 31) is a myth. 



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