598 A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Distribution. — England. — One. Romney Marsh (Kent), Sept. 17, 

 1907 (ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Breeds on arctic shores of N. America 

 south to mouth of Yukon river and to south Ungava. Winters 

 from Texas and Carolina through West Indies and Central America 

 to Patagonia, migrating through United States (mainly east of 

 Rocky Mountains), casual in north-east Siberia. Replaced by a 

 very closely-allied form on Alaska coast from Kotzebue Sound 

 north to mouth of Yukon, migrating in winter south to Florida and 

 Carolina, Trinidad and S. America. Casual Pribilof Is. 



Genus LIMICOLA Koch. 



Limicola* Koch, Syst. baier. Zool., p. 316 (1816 — Monotype L. pygmcea 

 = falcinellus). 



Differs from species of genus Calidris by shape of bill, which 

 is soft and flexible, tip hard ; in front of sharply defined frontal 

 feathering bill is slightly swollen or wrinkled, nostrils short and 

 near base, bill in front of nostrils strongly flattened and a little 

 recurved, tip decurved. Tail square and can hardly be called doubly 

 emarginate, but middle feathers are pointed and longer. Hind toe 

 well developed. 1 species in two subspecies. 



LIMICOLA FALCINELLUS 



402. Limicola falcinellus falcinellus (Pont.) — THE BROAD- 

 BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Scolopax Falcinellus Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, 1, p. 623 (1763 — 

 Denmark); Briinnich, Orn. Bor., p. 49 (1764 — Iceland). f 

 Tringa platyrincha (evidently wrong transliteration for platyrhyncha) 

 Temminck, Man. d'Orn., p. 398 (1815 — Swamps of N. Europe and N. 

 America, on passage in Germany. Typical locality : north Europe). 

 Limicola platyrhyncha (Temminck), Yarrell, in, p. 362 ; Saunders, p. 577. 

 Limicola platyrhyncha platyrhyncha (Temm.), Hand-List (1912), p. 178. 



Description. — Adult male and female. Winter. — Crown, nape, 

 mantle and scapulars ash-brown, feathers with brown shafts and 

 narrowly edged white ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts black- 

 brown, feathers tipped ash-brown ; sides of rump and lateral upper 

 tail-coverts white ; eye-stripe white ; lores dusky-brown ; ear- 

 coverts, cheeks and sides of neck white streaked dusky ; under- 

 pays white, lower -throat and upper-breast narrowly streaked dusky- 

 brown most pronounced at sides ; tail-feathers pale ash-brown nar- 

 rowly edged white, central pair with inner webs black-brown ; 

 primaries and secondaries sepia paler on inner webs, secondaries 



* Limicola has been rejected because in the same year, but apparently 

 3 months earlier, Vieillot published a Limicula, but both names are distin- 

 guishable and have a slightly different meaning. We therefore do not accept 

 this change. — E.H. 



f The name falcinellus antedates Temminck's platyrincha (sic !) by over 

 50 years. — E.H. 



