THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPERS. 
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ear-coverts rufous and surmounted by a pale buff eyebrow 
which becomes lighter above the lores ; chin and under sur- 
face of body white, the throat, fore-neck, and chest thickly 
spotted with dusky-blackish, those on the fore-neck and chest 
somewhat arrow-shaped, as they are also along the sides of the 
body ; all these parts slightly tinged with rufous ; lateral upper 
tail-coverts barred with black ; tail-feathers as in the winter 
plumage, but with a more extensive white area on the inner 
webs. Total length, 6-5 inches ; culraen, rs ; wing, 4'i5 ; tail, 
I '5 ; tarsus, o'8. 
Adult Female in Breeding Plumage. — Similar to the male, but not 
quite so plentifully spotted underneath. Total length, 6-5 
inches ; wing, 4-3. 
Young Birds. — Very similar to the summer plumage or the 
adults, being rufous above, mottled vvilh black centres to the 
feathers, and having very broad whitish margins ; centre 01 
the crown black, the outer tail-feathers having a great deal 
of white on the inner web confining the ashy-grey comur to a 
broad marginal line ; the fore-neck slightly tinged with buff, as 
also the sides of the upper-breast, these parts being very scantily 
streaked with brown. During their first winter the pale edges 
to the feathers become worn off, so that the general aspect of 
the upper surface is black. 
Bange in Great Britain.-Thc number of spechnens of the Broad 
billed Sandpiper which have been killed in England appoar to 
be seven in number, four of which have been shot on Breydon 
Broad in Norfolk. One in Mr. Borrer’s collection was obtained 
near Shorcham in Sussex, and Sir Henry Boynton has a speci- 
men from Hornsea Mere in Y orkshirc. Mr. Walter Burton also 
shot one near Rye in August, and of the others, four have been 
killed in spring and two in autumn, so that it is evident that 
the species is a rare visitor during the spring .and .autumn 
m’gration. One specimen was procured m Leltast i>ay, la 
Ireland, in October, 1844. 
Eango outside the British Islands.— The Bro.ad-billed Sandpaper 
nests on the mountains of Scandinavia as far south as 6o N. 
lat and in Lapland, and it probably breeds throughout the 
tundra regions of Northern Europe and Siberia; but it appears 
to be everywhere a loc;il bird, and not much is known con- 
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