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tuted respecting the relative numbers in the eastern and western 
island. My impression^ however, is, that not at all the same dis- 
parity exists that does in the case of the common snipe ; — that 
there is a much greater similarity in the numbers of jack snipe in 
the two islands, than there is in that of the Scolojpax gallinago. 
THE BEOAD-BILLED SANDPIPEE. 
Tringa pla;tyrhynca, Temm. 
Numenius pygm^eus, Lath. 
Has been once obtained. 
To the following notice of its occurrence which I published 
in the ^Annals of Natural History' for 1845 (vol. xv. p. 309) 
I can only now add that a second specimen has since been pro- 
cured in England ; at Shoreham, Sussex, in the end of October 
1845.* 
Of the broad-biUed sandpiper only one specimen is recorded 
as met with in Great Britain. It was noticed by Mr. Hoy in the 
first volume of Charlesworth's 'Magazine of Natural History' as 
having been "shot on the 25th of May 1836, on the muddy flats 
of Breydon Broad, Norfolk, in company with some dunlins and 
ring plover." In a locality of a similar nature — the oozy banks 
of Belfast Bay — a Tringa platyrhyncha was killed on the 4th of 
October 1844, with eleven golden plover and seven or eight 
dunlins at the same shot from a swivel-gun. 
It is a male bird, and larger than the English specimen, but of 
about equal size with that described by Temminck. The following are 
its measurementsf : — 
Inch. line. 
Length (stuffed specimen) 7 0 
of wing from carpus to end of quills ... 4 3^ 
of tarsus ........ 0 11 
of middle toe and nail ...... 0 10 
* Mr. W. Borrer, Jun., in ‘ Zoologist,’ vol. iv. p. 1394. 
t The taxidermist noted the specimen before being skinned to be in length 6|^ 
inches, breadth 13 inches ; weight 1 oz. 4i drachms. 
