BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
359 
GRALLATORES. 
SCOLOPA CID/E. 
BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
Tringa platyrhyncha. 
PLATE C. 
This bird, as well as its eggs, is quite a recent acqui¬ 
sition to our British list; and through, the kindness of 
Mr. Yarrell I was first indebted for the opportunity of 
figuring its curiously coloured eggs. To him they were 
presented by Mr. Dann, together with the following infor¬ 
mation given in the “British Birds:”—“This Sandpiper 
is by no means uncommon, during the breeding season, in 
Lulea and Tornea Lapmark, frequenting grassy morasses 
and swamps in small colonies, generally in the same 
places as those frequented by the wood sandpiper. It 
breeds also at Fogstuen on the Dovre Field mountains, 
about three thousand feet above the level of the sea, in 
Norway, where it arrives at the latter end of May. On 
its first appearance, it is wild and shy, and similar in its 
habits to the other species of the genus, feeding on the 
grassy borders of the small pools and lakes in the morasses; 
on being disturbed it soars to a great height in the air, 
rising and falling suddenly like the snipe, uttering the 
notes, too who, which are rapidly repeated. As the weather 
becomes warm, its habits totally change, skulking and 
creeping through the dead grass, and allowing itself to be 
followed within a few yards; and when flushed, dropping 
