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far as is yet known, it is nowhere plentiful ; sometimes it is met 

 with in the Melbourne markets during the game season and is 

 considered a rare bird by the dealers. Mr. E. Gr. Vickery has 

 been fortunate enough to obtain the nest and eggs durinf^ a 

 surveying trip in the Darling Eiver District near Wilcannia. The 

 eggs were placed on the ground among a few loose stones near 

 the summit of a small hillock or " rise " in the level country, and 

 placed on a little mound about two inches high, probably an old 

 ant-hill ; they were three in number, a pair measure as follows : 

 (A.) length 1-45 x 1-05 ; (B.) length V4t5 x I'OS. In form they 

 are rather less pointed, than the usual pyriform shape of Plover's 

 eggs ; the ground colour is of a deep rich cream or buff, sparingly 

 sprinkled all over with irregular spots and some elongated crooked 

 markings of chocolate-black wdth a few minute dots and dashes 

 of a lighter tint, the markings look black in certain lights but of 

 a chocolate tint in others. Specimens in Mr. Bennett's Collection 

 were taken during the month of October on the Lachlan River 

 near Moso:eil. 



53. Eecueyieostra eubeicollis, Temm. 



Mr. K. H. Bennett informs me that this species lays four eggs 

 for a sitting and breeds during the months of September to 

 December, laying its eggs on the bare ground w^ithout making 

 any nest, and sometimes close to the waters' edge. The present 

 specimens were found among the herbage usually growing about 

 the sheep tanks in the interior of the country, and were taken in 

 the Lachlan district ; the ground colour varies from light stone 

 colour to creamy-yellow, some of the former tint have a faint 

 olive-green shade, some are heavily blotched towards the thicker 

 end, others sparingly covered with spots, dots, and freckles of 

 dark umber brown and black, wdth a few obsolete spots of slate- 

 grey. A set measures as follows: (1) 2 in. x 1'^-, (2) 1*35 x 

 0-95; (3) 1-1 X 0-95; (J.) l-3xO-9o.—(FromMr.£emtetfs Coll.) 



