CnAEADEIIDJE. 3 



and this is very delicately marked with black, chocolate-brown, and 

 underlying pale purple. The markings consist of firm, well-defined 

 specks and spots, rather thickly set over the whole shell. At the 

 larger end they are frequently intermingled with lines and scrawls, 

 and form a more or less distinct cap. Fourteen specimens measure 

 from 1'4 to 1-7 in length, and from 1-07 to 1-18 in breadth. 



2. Chile. ^ Old Collection. 



2. Tarapaca, X. Chile {Rahiner). Berkeley James Coll. 

 5. Tarapaca {Lune). Berkeley .Tames Coll. 



3. Central Chile (Landbeck) . Berkeley .lames Coll. 

 2. Central Chile (Lcaidbech). Berkeley James Coll. 



Sub-Order CHARADRIL 

 Family CHARADRUDtE. 



Sub-Family ARENARIIN^. 

 Genus ARENARIA, Brhs. 

 Arenaria interpres {Linn.). 



Tringa moriuella, Thten. Fortjijlanz: ges. Vog. tab. Ixi. fig. 1, a-d (1845- 

 54). 



Strepsiias interpres, Baedeker, Hier Eur. Vof/. tab. 5. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 303, pi. Ixxix. (1856) ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. vii. p. 555(1875); Fcilden, Ibis, 1877, p. 405; id. in 

 Nan-ssHarr. Voy. Polar Sea, ii. p. 210 (1878) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, 

 p. 900 (1880; ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriida>, p. 410 (1887) ; 

 Foynting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 69, pi. 17 (1895-6). 



Charadrius interpres, Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 12, pi. 24 (1885) ; 

 id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 119, pi. 38. tigs. 7, 9 (1896). 



Arenaria interpres, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 92 (1896) ; id, 

 Rand-l. i. p. 146 (1899). 



The eggs of the Turnstone are pyriform and possess a fair amount 

 of gloss. The ground-colour is greenish white, pale olive-green, or 

 olive-buff, and this is spotted, blotched, and smeared with various 

 shades of brown, olive-brown, and underlying purplish grey. The 

 markings are coarser and more numerous at the larger end, where 

 they are often confluent and form a cap. Specimens measure 

 from 1"5 to 1*75 in length, and from 1-1 to 1-2 in breadth. 



3. Grinnell Land, lat. 81|° N., 30th July Voy. H.M.S. ' Discovery.' 



[C. Hart). 



4. Finmark (iN'wnZr/). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Smolen Islands, Norway, June. Mr. A. Rosbach [P.]. 



2. South Sweden (//. W. Wheelwright). Salvin-Godman t!oll. 



3. South Sweden (//. IV. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. South Baltic, 3rd June (Bcnzon). Seubohm Coll. 

 1. Denmark {Charbvnnier : Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



3. Denmark {Kjccrbolling), Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Island of Lessij, Denmark {Benzon). Seebolnu Coll. 



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