THE SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPEK. 
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beautifully marked, scarce Larus Rossii, Rickards, of wkich Dr. 
Almquist on the 1st July, 1879, shot a specimen from the vessel, 
a little brown sandpiper with a spoonlike widened bill-point 
[Eury7borlhync]iiispygmmus, L.), and various song-birds not found in 
Sweden, &c. Besides, a number of the ScandinavianJypes living 
here also, according to Lieutenant Nordquist, are distinguished 
by less considerable differences in colour-marking and size. The 
singular spoon-billed sandpiper was at one time in spring so common 
that it was twice served at the gunroom table, for which after 
SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER FROM CHLKCH LAND. 
Eurynorhynchus pygmtsus, L. 
At the side the bird’s bill seen from above, of the natural size. 
our return home we had to endure severe reproaches from animal 
collectors. This bird is found only in some few museums. It 
was first described by Linn.^us in Mtiseimn AdolpJii Friclerici, 
Tomi secitndi prodromus, Holmige 1764, and then by C. P. 
Thunberg in the Transactions of the Swedish Academy of 
Sciences for 1816 (p. 194), where it is stated that the homeland 
of this bird is tropical America. It has since been caught a few 
times in south-eastern Asia. Probably, like Byhia Eicersmanni, 
it passes the winter in the Philippine group of islands, but in 
