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BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
country at an elevation of three thousand feet above 
the level of the sea. A very interesting notice, on the 
authority of that gentleman, of the bird during the 
season of incubation, is given by Mr. Yarrell.* The 
Indian Archipelago, Borneo, Sumatra, and Timor, 
are given to it by Temminck. 
“ The adult bird, in the breeding season, has the 
beak, which is one inch and one-sixteenth in length, 
dark brown at tbe point, inclining to reddish-brown 
at the base ; irides brown ; from the base of the beak 
to the eye a dark brown streak, over that and the eye 
a white streak, with a brown central longitudinal line; 
top of the head brownish-black, slightly varied with 
greyish-white, and tinged with ferruginous ; inter- 
scapulars nearly black with rufous edges ; scapulars, 
wing-coverts, lower part of the back and tertials, 
black ; the feathers having broad margins of buffy- 
white or rufous ; the primary and secondary quill- 
feathers black ; the shafts white ; upper tail-coverts 
black, with rufous edges; the two middle tail- 
feathers nearly black, longer than the others, pointed 
and margined with rufous, the others ash-grey mar- 
gined with buff colour; chin nearly white, with mi- 
nute dark specks ; sides and front of the neck, and 
upper parts of the breast, greyish-white, varied with 
black spots, and tinged with buffy-red ; belly, vent, 
and under-tail coverts white ; legs, toes, and claws, 
greenish-black. The whole length of the adult bird 
six inches and three- eighths." t 
* Yarrell, ii. p. 641. 
f Ibid. 
