BBOAD-BILLED SANDPIPER
LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA (Temm.).
Tringa platyrincha (misprint), Temm. Man. d’Orn. p. 398
(1815).
Limicola pygmæa, Naum. viii. p. 271, xiii. p. 245.
Tringa platyrhyncha, Macg. iv. p. 224 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 359.
Limicola platyrhyncha, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 362 ; Dresser, viii.
p. 3.
Bécasseau platyrhynque, French ; Plattschnabliger Wassertreter,
German.
As this is a bird that I never saw alive, I will only
state that it is of rare occurrence in our country, that it
breeds in Scandinavia, and migrates in autumn to the
shores of the Mediterranean. For further details I refer
my readers to our standard ornithological authorities,
merely adding that I have a specimen of this species in
my collection that was shot by Mr. W. Burton near
Bye on August 13th, 1887.
