(KllICNKMII),«. 



on the beach. W'lien [ lound the egf^ I left it for a couple of clays to see if any more would be 

 laid, but on my return I still found only the one, so I took it. I co\ered myself witii leaves, and 

 eventually shot one of the birds, so as to properly identify the species to which the egt^ belonged. 

 I have seen this pair well up the inlet on the sandbanks, but at night they were generally to be 

 found on the beach, as wiien camped there 1 have often heard them calling. When out on the 

 Barrier Keef I saw one pair, but they were e\ idently not nesting there. I have never seen more 

 than two birds together." 



Dr. W. Macgillivray writes as follows from lUoken I fill, South-western New Soutli Wales : — 

 " I did not meet with iisiwiis in(ii;i!ii'ostiis until 1 went up the North ( )ueensland coast in lyio. 

 I first saw one feeding on some mud flats, left by the receding tide, when anchored near Cape 

 Flattery. On several of the islands visited afterwards single birds or pairs were seen, but not 

 until we were camped on the Sir Charles Hardy Islands did I succeed in finding a nest ; this 

 was merely a depression in the dead coral, which formed the beach on the weather side of one 

 of the islands, and under the shelter of a straggling bush the single large egg, when I found it, 

 was on the point of hatching, which it did within an hour and before I could get my camera 



it. I, however, secured a photograph of the young 

 bird. The old birds met with were at all times exceed- 

 ingly shy, even upon islands where they could rarely, 

 r* ^^B^fllHF' ' • ' ^ if ever, have been disturbed. In the gait and manner 



^^J^*^ ^^ , - -^>1 , of Hying they \ery much resemble the Stone-Plover." 



from the boat to take a picture of 



LARI-iK lilLI.KD SIIORE-PLOVKK (UKCENTI.Y 

 IIATCHKD.) 



From Cobborah Station, Cobbora, New South W'ales, 

 Mr. Thos. P. Austin wrote as follows: — " Oiilin)'nii:p/nis 

 «/(i,;,';»V(is/)7s is easily distinguished from Biirliinus ,i;ral- 

 liirins when llying, as it shows much more white on the 

 wings, but to see them at a little distance while running 

 both species look somewhat alike. The only place I 

 had the pleasure of seeing them was on the Islands off 

 Wackay, (Queensland, in 1907, where they were not 

 very plentiful. (Jne of our party saw three, as he 

 thought, sitting upon their nests all under the same 

 bush, and only a few feet from him, although they were 

 reluctant to lea\e their positions; only one hail an 

 egg, the other two, ap[iarently, were just about to lay." 



Mr. Tom Carter wrote as follows from iJroome flili. South-western Australia: — "(Jiilio- 

 ramphus ma>inirostris occurred regularly on various parts of the coast of the North-west Cape in 

 North-western Australia. At one place, where a heavy surf broke on a shingly beach, a pair 

 could always be seen, and here I found one egg on 24th October, Kjoo, on the top of a shingle 

 ridge, within reach of the sea spray. There was no nest whatever, the egg being laid in a slight 

 hollow in coarse shingle, and was very inconspicuous. Personally I never saw this species south 

 of Point Cloates, or outside the tropic line. They feed on sandy as well as rocky beaches, and 

 their cry much resembles that of the Stone-Plover (Builiiinis ^nilluriiis), the native name, as 

 Gould points out, being the same for both species, viz., ' wheel-lo or wee-lo." 



Only one egg is laid for a sitting. An egg taken by Mr. Tom Carter, at Point Cloates, 

 North-western Australia, on the 24th October, 1900, is elongated oval in form, somewhat 

 compressed towards the smaller end, comparatively close-grained, dull and lustreless. It is of a 

 pale brownish-white ground colour, on which is evenly distributed irregular-shaped spots, dashes, 

 streaks and blotches of blackish-brown and a few markings of light umber-brown, with which is 

 intermingled similar underlying markings of inky-grey, which predominate and are larger on the 

 thicker end Length 2-67 x 1-72 inches. 



