Subgenus LIMICOLA. 
Bill very high at the base, then suddenly flattened and depressed to the tip, which is bent 
down in both mandibles ; gonys ridged ; a fine groove adjacent to the edges of both mandibles ; 
nostrils oval and oblique, placed in a depressed membrane. Otherwise as in Tringa ; the hind 
toe a little longer. 
LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA. 
(THE BROAD-BILLED STINT.) 
Numenius pygmceus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 713 (1790, nec Linn.). 
Tringa platyrhyncha, Temm. Man. d’Orn. ii. p. 616 (1820); Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 331 
(1837) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 269 (1849) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 
1854, xiv. p. 265 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 692 (1864) ; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, 
p. 49 (1864) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 474 ; Von Heuglin, Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1185 
(1873); Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 244, et 1874, p. 298 ; Armstrong, ibid. 1876, p. 343 ; 
David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 470 (1877). 
Tringa pygnma (Lath.), Von MiddendorfF, Sibir. Reise, ii. p. 223 (1853). 
Limicola platyrhyncha (Temm.), Salvadori, Ucc. di Born. p. 222 (1874) ; Dresser, B. of Eur. 
pt. 51, 52 (1876); Hume, Str. Feath. (B. of Tenass.), 1878, p. 461; Hume, ibid. 1878, 
vii. p. 487 ; id. ibid. 1879, viii. (List of Ind. B.), p. 113. 
I Limicola sibirica, Dresser, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 674. 
Le plus petit des Courlis, Sonn.; Pygmy Curlew, Lath.; The Broad-billed Sandpiper of some. 
Adult female (Ceylou, Eeb. 21, 1879). Length (from skin) 6'4 inches; wing 4'2; tail 1*8; tarsus 0-85 ; hind toe and 
claw 0-78 ; bill to gape 1-28. 
Note. The bill is flattened in this species, and bent down at 0-3 inch from the tip. 
Adult male (Gland). Length (from skin) 6-5 inches ; wing 4-3 ; tail 1*8; tarsus 08 ; middle toe and claw 08 ; bill 
to gape 1'2. 
Iris brown ; bill black, slightly pale at the base beneath ; legs brown. 
Winter plumage (Ceylon). Head, hind neck, and back grey-brown, the centres of the feathers darker than the edges ; 
lower back, rump, and centre tail-feathers brownish black, with pale tips to the feathers ; scapulars tipped with 
white, and with black shaft-streaks ; least wing-coverts brown, finely edged with greyish ; median and greater 
coverts blackish at the centre, then paling into grey, with deep margins of white ; primaries and secondaries 
blackish brown, with whitish shafts ; primary-coverts blackish ; remaining tail-feathers greyish brown, the inner 
webs pale, that of the lateral feather almost white. 
Lores dark grey, surmounted by a broad white stripe starting from the bill (where it confines the brown of the forehead 
into a point) and passing over the eye ; cheeks and ear-coverts streaked finely with brown ; beneath, from the 
chin to the under tail-coverts, white ; under wing-coverts white ; feathers beneath the metacarpal joint edged 
with brown ; sides of the neck streaked with brown. 
An example from China (24th November) has the superciliary bands less conspicuous, the face more streaked with 
brown, and likewise the chest slightly striated. 
Summer plumage (Oland, 24th May). — General character. Head, back, and scapulars margined with dark rufous and 
white ; top of head, occiput, lower hind neck, back, scapulars, and tertials deep black, most of the feathers edged 
with rufous, and the scapulars and interscapulars with broad lateral white margins ; hind-neck feathers edged 
