LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA. 



(BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER.) 



Numenius pygmceus, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 277 (1802, nee Lath.). 



Numenius pusillus, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. iv. p. 152 (1809, nee Linn.). 



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



Limicola pygmcea, Koch, Baier. Zool. i. p. 316 (1816). 



Tringa elorioides, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 463 (1819). 



Tringa platyrhyncha, Meyer, Orn. Taschenb. iii. p. 259 (1822). 



Tringa pygmea (Bechst.), Savi, Orn. Tosc. ii. p. 291 (1829). 



Pelidna platyrhyncha (Temrn.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 50 (1838). 



Pelidna megarhynchos, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 317 (1855). 



Limicola hartlaubi, Verr. in Vinson's Voy. Madagascar, Annexe B, p. 5 (1865). 



Becasseau platyrhynque, French ; Jcleiner Sumpflaufer, German ; Bredncebet-Strandlober, 

 Danish ; Brednwbbet Strandvipe, Norwegian ; Myrsnappa, Brednabbad strdndvipa, 

 Swedish ; Jankkasirriainen, Finnish. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 10; Kjaerb. Orn. Dan. taf. 35 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 38. fig. 1 ; 

 Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 207. figs. 1, 2 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 43. fig. 3 ; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 331 ; id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 75 ; Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. taf. 21. 



Ad. ptil. ast. capite et corpore supra nigris, plumis vix albido et rufescente cervino marginatis, supra oculos 

 usque ad nucham stria albida producta f uropygio fere onmino nigro : remigibus nigricantibus rhachibus 

 albis, secundariis vix albido apicatis : rectricibus duabus centralibus elongatis, nigris, vix rufescente 

 cervino marginatis, reliquis cinereis albo marginatis : corpore subtiis albo, capitis lateribus, gula et 

 hypochondriis fusco et fusco-cinereo maculatis : rostro nigricante vix viridi tincto, pedibus griseo- 

 ochraceis : iride fusca. 



Ptil. Mem. supra pallide cinereus vix fusco tinctus, plumis centraliter fusco notatis : uropygio nigro, plumis 

 pallidiore marginatis : subtiis albus, gula vix nigricante griseo striata. 



Adult in summer (Uleaborg, Finland, 12th June, 1861). Crown and nape black, slightly varied with bufi'y 

 white and rufous buff; over the eye to the hind neck a broad greyish line, varied with buffy brown, 

 passes; hind neck much varied with greyish; upper parts otherwise black, the feathers slightly 

 margined and tipped with rufous and buffy white ; rump scarcely marked with these colours, and the 

 upper tail-coverts nearly pure dull black ; quills blackish, the shafts white ; secondaries very narrowly 

 tipped with white; scapulars like the back, and the wing-coverts blackish grey with dull white 

 margins, and slightly varied with dull rufous; the two central rectrices rather elongated, black, 

 margined with rufous, the remaining tail-feathers grey, edged with white ; underparts white ; the sides 

 of the head, throat, and flanks spotted and marked with brown and brownish grey ; a dark streak 



