22 CHARADRIID^. 



black and sparsely with underlying pale purple. The markings are 

 bold and evenly spread over the shell. The eggs measure from I'T 

 to 1-y in length, and from 1.13 to 1-23 in breadth. 



4. Falkland Islands (E. McC). McCormick Bequest. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. e. yl<^6o«). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C.^.). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



4. Falkland Islands (C. C. ^.). Salvin-Godiuan Coll. 



Genus OXYECHUS, Reichenh. 



Oxyechus vociferus {Linn.). 



Cliaradrius vociferus, Thien. Fortjyflanz. gps. Viig., tab. lix. fig. 3 (1845- 



54) ; Seehohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 28, pi. 2(5 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Bistr. 



Charadriida;, p. 120 (1887) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 123, pi. 39. 



fig. 2(189G). 

 /Egialites vociferus, Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 33. 

 Oxyeclms vociferus, Baird, Brewer if- Ridgw. Wetter Birds N. Am. . 



p. 148(1884); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. llf. xxiv. p. 242 (1896); id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 154 (1899). 

 jEgialitis vocifeia, Dresser, Birds Eur. ix. (Siippl.), p. 345 (1890) ; 



Pognting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 37, pi. 9 (1895-6). 



The eggs of the Killdeer Plover are ])yriform and slightly glossy. 

 The ground-colour is pale creamy-buff, marked, more thickly at the 

 broad end than elsewhere, with spots and small blotches of dark 

 brown and black. Some of the markings take the form of lines and 

 scrawls. The underlying spots of dull purple are very incon- 

 spicuous. Specimens measure from 1'41 to 1-6 in length, and from 

 1-06 to 1-1 in breadth. 



1. North America {Hetishaw Coll.). Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



4. Fort Benton, N. America {Smiths. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Inst.). 

 4. Little Slave Lake {S. Jones : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Henshaw Coll.). 

 4. Toronto, Canada. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Washoe Lake, Nevada, 1st June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. W. Henshaw). 

 4. Texas {H. E. Dresser). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Ithaca, Nrw York, 4th May (C. J. Princeton Univer3ity,N. J. [E.]. 



Pennock). 



Oxyechus tricoUaris ( VieiU.). 



Charadrius tricoUaris, Thien. Fortpjianz. ges. Vog. tab. lix. fig. 7 a,b 

 (1845-54) ; Seehohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidte, p. 134 (1887). 



^•Egialitis tricoUaris, Harting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 457, pi. Ix. fig. 5 ; Sharpe, 

 ed. Laynrd, Birds S. Africa, p. 662 (1875-84). 



Oxyechus tricoUaris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 247 (1896) ; id. 

 Hand-l. i.p. 154 (1899). 



The eggs of Temminck's Three-banded Plover in the Collection 



