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are pyriform and gloss-less. The ground is cream-colour, and this 

 is covered in a remarkable manner with an intricate tracery of 

 interwoven lines, both coarse and fine, of a purplish-brown colour. 

 These lines are everj^where thickly disposed over the shell, but they 

 are still more crowded in a series of ill-defined zones round the egg. 

 A pale underlying purple tinge suffuses the shell. Two examples 

 measure respectively : 1-23 by '88 ; 1*25 by -9. 



2. Cape Colony (E. L. Layard). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus ^GrlALEUS, Eeicheah. 

 iEgialeus semipalmatus (B^j.). 



Cliaradrius semipalmatus, Thien. Fortpflanz. (jes. Vdij. tab. lix. fig. ba,b 

 (1845-54); Seeb->hm, Geor/r. Distr. Charadriidee, p. 123 (1887). 



-Egialitis semipalmatus, Buird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. Wafer Birds N. Am, 

 i. p. 154 (1884). 



^Egialeus semipalmatus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 250 (1896) ; 

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



The eggs of the Semi-palmated Ringed Plover are pyriform, and 

 possess a small amount of gloss. They are of a pale buS: colour, 

 marked with spots and small blotches which are well-defined, deep 

 black, and of a somewhat roundish form. The markings are more 

 frequent at the larger end than elsewhere, but they seldom coalesce 

 and form patches. The iinderl3dng markin'^s are pale purple and 

 inconspicuous. Examples measure from 1"27 to 1*45 in length, 

 and from '93 to 1"03 in breadth. 



2. North America. Thienemann Coll. 



4. North America (Harti/it/ Coll.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Hudson's Bav (II. E. IJresser). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Sable Island," Nova Scotia (P. S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dodd: Henshaw Coll.). 



2. Disco, Greeulaud (jR. McC). McCormick Bequest. 



Genus .ffiCJIALITIS, Bo'ie. 

 .Slgialitis hiaticola {Linn.). 



Charadrius hiaticula, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 296, pi. Ixxvii, 



figs, i, ii (185i3) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 20, pi. 26 (1885) ; 



id. Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 125 (1887). 

 ^Egialitis hiaticula, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 497 (1876); Seebohm ^ 



Harvie-Bnnvn, Ibis, 1876, p. 239; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 155; 



Pognting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 25, pi. 6 (1895-6). 

 .(Egialitis hiaticola, 'Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 256 (1896) ; id. 



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

 Charadrius hiaticula major, Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 20, pi. 26 (1885); 



id. Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 126 (1887) ; id. Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 121, pi. 40. figs. 1, 3 (1896). 



