EUDE0MIA3. ZONIBYX. 21 



Genus EUDROMIAS, Brehm. 



Eudromias morinellus {Linn.), 



Charadrius morinellus, Thien. Fortpjlanz. qes. Vog., tab. lix. fig:. 2 a, 6 

 (1845-54) ; Hewitson, Egys of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 29;5, pi. Ixxvi. fig. i 

 (185G); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 30, pi. 26 (1885) ; id. Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadriidce, ^. U'd [imi) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 123, 

 pi. 39. figs. 4, 6 (1896). 



Eudromias morinellus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 6. fig. 5 (1855-63) ; 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 507 (1876) ; Poyntinq, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 15, pi. 4 (1895-6) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 284 (1896) ; 

 id. Hand-l. i. p. 153 (1899). 



The eggs of the Dotterel are chiefly pyriform, but some are quite 

 of a regular oval shape. They have a small amount of gloss. The 

 ground-colour is olive-grey or olive-buiF, boldly spotted and blotched 

 with rich brown or black, and some underlying pale inky-purple, the 

 latter being very inconspicuous and almost absent in some specimens. 

 The surface-markings are almost invariably confluent at the broad 

 end. The eggs measure from 1*48 to l"7o in length, and from 1"1 

 to 1*2 in breadth. 



3. Ben Avon, Banftshire, 3300 ft., Capt. Savile Eeid and W. H. 



5th June. Ogihie Grant, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Cumberland {Cooper). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Cumberland (F. Nicholson). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Cumberland, oth June (F. N.). Seebohm Coll. 

 3. Cumberland, July {F. N.). Seebohm Coll. 

 3. Cumberland, July {F. N.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Lapland. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Lapland (Hawkins). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Toruea, Lapland, June (J. Wolley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Kautokeino, Finmark, 26th June Seebohm Coll. 



(Meves). 

 3. Kautokeino, 27th June (Meves). Seebohm Coll. 



8. Kautokeino, 30th June {Meves). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus ZONIBYX, Reichenh. 



Zonibyx modestus (Licht.). 



(Plate I. fig. 5.) 



Squatarola cincta, Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 95. 

 Eudromias urvillii, Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 155. 



Charadrius mode,«tus,' Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 105 (1887). 

 Eudromias niodesta, 8cl. ^- Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 171 (1889). 

 Zonibvx modestus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 238 (1896") ; id. 

 iiand-l. i. p. 153 (1899). 



The eggs of the Falkland-Island Dotterel are long, narrow and 

 pointed. A few examples possess a small amount of gloss, but the 

 majority are quite gloss-less. The ground-colour varies from a pale 

 olive-buff to a rather rich buff, thickly spotted and blotched with 



