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CHARADRIIDjE. 



2. Cobbs Island, Virginia, 7th May Princeton University ,N.J.[E.]. 



(JV.K D. Scott). 

 2. Cobbs Island, 14th Mav {W. „ „ » 



K D. S.). 



2. Cobbs Island, 10th June (W. „ „ » 



K D. S.). 



1. Cobbs Island, ISth June {W. „ „ „ 



E. D. S.). 



3. Cobbs Island, 15th June (W. „ „ ,» 



K D. S.). 



2. Cobbs Island, 20th June (W. „ „ ., 



E. D. S.). 



3. Cobbs Island, 28th June {W. „ „ „ 



E. D. S.). 

 3. Cobbs Island, 28th June {W. „ „ ,, 



E. D. S.). 



1. Cobbs Island, 28th June {W. 



E. I). S.). 



2. \irginia. {l>r. Hitz: Henshatv Coll.). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



2. Old Tampa Bay, Florida, 20th April Princeton University ,N. J. [E.]. 



( W. E. D. Scott). 



3. British Honduras, 18th May (O, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin). 

 3. British Honduras, I8th May (O. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ochthodromus geoffroyi ( Wagl.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 9.) 



^gialites geottroii, Sioinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 405 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 154. 

 ^gialitis geoffroyi, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 475 (1878) ; Legge, Birds 



Ceylon, p. 989 (1880) ; Harting, P. Z. S. 1882. p. 355; La Touche, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 496. 

 Charadrius geoffroyi, Seehohm, Geogr. Distr. CharadriidcB, p. 146 (1887). 

 Ochthodromus geoffrovi, »S'A«rp«, Ca<.i>»-6?s ^. iJf. xxiv. p. 217 (1896); 



id. Hand-Li. -p. 153 (1899). 



The eggs of a Plover found by Swiiihoe in Formosa and assigned 

 by him to Charadrius longipes (C. dominicus) are now in the 

 Collection and probably are, as surmised by Seebohm, the eggs of 

 the present species. 



The eggs of the Greater Sand-Plover are either pyriform or of an 

 oval shape, and they have a fair amount of gloss. The ground-colour 

 is clear pale buff, generally thickly marked with spots and huge 

 blotches of dark umber-brown, or black, and some smaU sirots of 

 pale underlying purple. In a few specimens the markings are 

 comparatively delicate, consisting only of spots and scrawls, but in 

 the majority they are very large and coarse. The eggs are not 

 separable from those of Rostratula capeiisis. They measure from 

 1"3 to 1-42 in length, and from -95 to 1-07 in breadth. 



10. Formosa (i2. Swinhoe). 



Seebohm Coll. 



