28 CHABADRIID^, 



Charadrius cantianus nivosus, Seebohw, Geogr. Dittr. Charadriida, p. 171 



(1887). 

 ^gialitis nivosa, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 290 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 155 (1899). 



The eggs of the Snowy Sand-Plover in the Collection are closely 

 alike. Two are somewhat pyriform, the third is of a regular 

 oval shape. They are all glossless. The ground-colour is very 

 pale creamy-bufF, rather elegantly marked with spots, lines, and 

 scrawls of dark brown or black, and a few underlying marking* 

 of pale purple. Three specimens measure respectively : 1'2 by 

 •87 ; 1-24 by -9 ; 1-27 by -91. 



3. Santa Barbara, California, 8th July Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



{H. W. Henshaio). 



JEgialitis meloda {Ord). 



./Egialitis meloda, Bnivd, Brewer ^- Bidgxo. Water Birds N. Ain. i. p. 160 



(1884) ; Sharpe, Ha7id-l. i. p. 155 (1899). 

 Charadrius melodvis, Scebohm, Geoyr. Distr. C/iaradriidep. p. 121 (1887). 

 jEgialitis nielodiis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 292 (1896). 



The eggs of the American Piping Plover are jiyriform and are 

 occasionally very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is of a very 

 pale creamy-buff, marked all over, but not thickly, with small 

 round spots of umber-brown or black, together with others of pale 

 purple. The markings are very well-defined, and it is seldom that 

 two spots coalesce together. Eight examples measure from 1*17 to 

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



1. North America {Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Ipswich, Massachusetts (»S'. L. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Greemcood : Henshniu Coll.). 



2. Barnegat, New Jersey, 28th June PrincetonUniversity,N.J.[E.]. 



( W. E. D. Scott). 



.ffigialitis occidentalis. Cab. 



Charadrius ncciAeTiiaX\s,Seebohni, Geogr. Distr. Charadriid<s,-p. 174(1887). 

 ^gialitis occidentalis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 295 (1896) ; 

 id. Hund-l. i. p. 155 (1899). 



The eggs of Cabanis's Sand-Plover in the Collection resemble 

 those of ^. nivosa, already described, and cannot be separated from 

 them. They measure respectively: 1-27 by -9 ; 1-27 by -9; 1'23 

 by -96. 



3. Chile. Old Collection. 



.ZEgialitis falklandica (Lath.). 



iEgiahtis falklandica, Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 155; Harting, P. Z. ^.1874, 

 p. 457, pi. Ix. tig. 6; Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 402; Gibson, IbiSf 

 1880. p. 163 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xsiv. p. 295 (1896) ; id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 155 (1899). 



