LIMlQQfiÆ. : - f SCOLQPlClDÆ.
Limicola platyrhyncha (Temminck*).
THE BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER.
• Trinaa \n ^w to ie k .
IaHicoiA, Kochf.—Bill mVtfh’féS'ger thaü-fcbe head, nearly [as broad as high
at the base, very flat and'wid^ up td the .tip, where iVjts, graduanyi^Q^n^.ed^o
an obtuse point, with the terminal poKtion^flight!^ deeurved^;^ nostrils, oval,
oblique, placed in a depressed membrane?. Wings’ lonjf,* 'po{bt’efl,yine^firstfi<|uills
feather the longest; inner sechndafi'es long and pointed?? Tail'xrtddeTai^dofiBly
emaacginate. Legs, rather short, slender, bare t on thé J|g$ev part-.of dfce >
tarsus sputellate-j. the three ^nterior to.es, lop a and slender, slightly yeblaed at
the base ; the Kind toe moderated ‘ s
T h e Brqad-billed Sandpiper, which is - distinguished
from other specif by the character whieh its na,me sng^^sfs,
was first made known as a jigitpitJ^j^ ^ British- Islands,)?y
late Mr. Jgny^ whp, recorded an example^. sbo£ on- th,e
muddy flats of Rreydon Watey^ 'Norfolk, on-the,„ >
1836 (Mag. Nat. Hist. x. p. 116), in? company .with |pme
Dunlins and Ring-plovers'. that date a|y^&nd
* Tringa platyvincha (misprint),'Temminck, Man. d’.Orn. p.. -898qlJ815).’
t System der baierischen Zoologio. 1. ,p.%&16 (lblfl).
J Mr. Stevenson states (B. Norfolk, ii. p. that there is no evidence of
this'specimen ever having been in Mr. Hoy’s possession;- nor has he been able to
ascertain w,hat became of it.
specimen, a male in breeding plumage, now in Mr. J. H.
Gurney’s collection, was obtained on Breydon, May 25th,
1856 (Zool. p, 5159), and a third, in Mr. Stevensofi^s
collection, a male assuming its summer plumage, was killed
onyBreydon the 28rd April, 1868. ” Mr. William Borrer, of
Géwfold,«Sussex, possesses an example nearly in winter
plumage;5-obtained neat--Shoreham'-iii -Dcfèbëf,' 1845 (Zool.
p. 1394).' &0B April; 1863, a bird now in the -eoliectimf^bf
Sir Hk $1 b Bëÿntéïb waS1 shot oh Hornsea Mëiey- Yorkshire ; *
and this cldses - for thé? preseht the ; list- of • occurrences • of
this fare visitant in England. In -Ireland a-specimen’ was’
obtained in Belfast ' Baÿ; ofl the 4th! ©ëtobér, 1844, as
recorded by Thompson (Ann. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 309]’/ ^
It is?'quite »^issiMo-that this k%agf$ér màÿ. ^ ^ of more
frequenL'ôocurrenëé thah is supposed, but it is évident that
the British Islands lie outside itS' ordinary“ routes df migration.
- Yet i t breeds %d”furfcneF0ff than'the fells of Norway
and ÉWedeü,-which' constitute -its summer head-quarters;
and oh Its' wdÿ to and from t-hese,^# visits' the - coast1 line
and {the inland Waters-'%f Denmark, Germany, France;' and
Switzerland.. «"As yet^its presènce has not^been noticed in'
the'^Iberian Peninsula,' but ;'%h -parts - of Italy, although -of
irregular occurrence', 3^-i-sSometimes numerous. It w said
to«y^t~the African Chores- of the Mediterranean, and therpls
tolerably good evidence that? it‘goes to-Egypt as a straggler’“
ip ’has Occurred in Madagascar, but -otherwise its winter
distribution as -regards the Ethiopian region is unknown.
From-Finland a'nd^NoithermRussia, whereat also breeoiyif
descends-to”the shores :of'«the: Black Sea, and occasionallyrto
th&Kirghiz steppes, In the-'-heighbdtirM^'od of the - Caspian ;
biÉMi-cannot as-yet be traced'-'to Asia Minor. Nor has it'
J^-%èén- réebfded from-'Turkestan, hut Sevërtzoïf obtained a
single- specimen -at-Kara-Kul, in the Pamir range, on" August
17thf(Tbis; 4883,5|p. 7#)' ; and at Nurachëéyand along? the
M|kran and Sindh 'doafsfcs; -ft-is- -deéM^ly%ommoiî' in Winter;
It isuiot recordéd-frôm tafti-y ïM-and-dïStrict of India;‘but both
young andj -adults -obtained -by Mr. Blyth- at -Calcutta are in
^ ^ ^B fd e au x , ‘B. Humber,’ p. x'V7. E. Clarke, ‘ Vçrke. Vertcbs. j>. 7%