^GIALITIS. 25 



^gialitis dubia (Scop.). 



Charadrius minor, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 299, pi. Ixxvii. 



fig. iv(1856); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 16, pi. 2C> (1885); id. 



Geogr. Distr. Charadriidee, p. 130 (1887); id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, 



p. 120, pi. 40. fig. 2 (18(JC). 

 iEgialitis philippensis, Beavan, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 376; id. Ibis, 1868, 



p. 389. 

 ^gialitis curonica, Ei-esse?-, Birds Etir. \n. yt. 491 (1876); Legge, Birds 



Ceylon, p. 952 (1880) ; Irby, Orn. Sir. Gibr. 2ncL ed. p. 269 (1895) ; 



Poxjnting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 31, pi. 7 (1895-6). 

 -^gialilis dubia, Ocdes ed. Hume, Nests <.y Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. p. 338 



(1890) ; ^^hcaye. Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 263 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. 



i. p. 154 (1899). 

 .^gialitis jerdoni, Oates, op. cit. iii. p. 340 ; Barnes, Journ, Bomb. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. vi. p. 22, pi. — . fig. 850 (1891). 



The eggs of the Little Ringed Plover are sharply pyriform and 

 perfectly gloss-less. The ground-colour is pale buff, in many cases 

 faintly tinged with green ; it is rather densely marked all over with 

 specks, small spots, streaks and lines of umber-brown or black. 

 The markings are always extremely delicate, and they are generally 

 more frequent at the large end than elsewhere. The underlying 

 markings consist of small spots of pale purple. The eggs measure 

 from 1-1 to 1-25 in length, and from -8 to -9 in breadth. 



iEgialitis peroni {Bp.). 



-(Egialitis peroni, Sharps, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 350 ; id. Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxiv. p. 273 (1896) ; Grant 8,- Whitehead, Ibis, 1898, p. 247, pi. vi. 



tig. 8; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 1.54 (1899). 

 Charadrius peroni, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidee, p. 166 (1887). 



The eggs of the Malay Sand-Plover are of a regular oval form 

 and gloss-less. The ground is pale cream-colour, and this is thickly 

 marked with spots, streaks, lines, and scrawls of dark brown or 

 black, together with some underlying markings of pale purple. 



