BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
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In a Tobago specimen before us, the whole upper 
parts are deep blackish-brown, the feathers mar- 
gined with ochreous ; on the rump and upper tail- 
coverts the tint is nearly black, glossed with purple, 
and having the pale tips and edgings very narrow 
and indistinct; the quills are clove-brown, shafts of 
the first white ; the tail is much cuneated, the centre 
feathers deep brownish-black, the others shading 
into hair-brown to the outer pair, and all edged 
narrowly with wood-brown ; beneath, the throat is 
nearly white, the neck and breast wood-brown, the 
centre of each feather dark ; the same colour extends 
slightly on the flanks, and the dark shaft of each 
feather is only seen ; the belly, vent, and under tail- 
coverts, are pure white ; the legs appear to have 
been greenish-yellow. The total length of this spe- 
cimen is eight inches. The breeding state, as well 
as the regions where it incubates, seem yet to be 
undiscovered. 
Broad-billed Sandpiper, T. platyrhynciia 
Becasseau platyrhynque, Temm. — Broad - billed 
Sandpiper , Gould , Yarrell, and modern British 
authors. — A single specimen of this bird was killed 
in 182C, in the same locality -with the last; and is, 
we believe, the only instance of its occurrence in 
the British Islands. It is also of rare appearance 
in Southern and Central Europe, but has been 
found by Mr. Dann to be by no means uncommon 
in Sweden and Norway, breeding in the latter 
