44 CHAEIDRIID.H. 



Totanus flavipes (Gm.). 



Totaniis flavipes, Netcton, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 166, pi. xv. fig. 5 ; Baird, 

 Bmver Hf Riclqw. Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 273 (1884); Seebohm, 

 Brit. Birds, ill. p. 130, pi. 32 (188o) ; id. Geoqr. Distr. Charadriidce, 

 p. 364 (1887) ; MacFarlane, Proc. U.S. Nat. Miis. xiv. p. 4i>8 (1891 ) ; 

 Poyntim/, Eqys of Brit. Birds, p. 215, pi. 45 (1895-6) ; Dresser, 

 Birds i:ur."ix. (Suppl.) p. 377 (1896); Seebohm, Egqs of Brit. 

 . Birds, p. 139, pi. 44. tig. 11 (1896) ; Shmye, Cut. Birds B. M. 

 xxiv. p. 431 (1896) : id. Hand-l. \. p. 160 (1899). 



The few eggs of the Yellowshank, or Yellow-legs, in the Collection 

 are pj-riform. Two are fairly glossy, of a pale greenish -buff colour, 

 and marked all over with spots and small blotches of rich blacki.sh 

 brown and underlying pale purple, the blotches being more or less 

 contluont over the broad end. Two others are gloss-less and of a 

 rich cream-colour, marked with spots and blotches of dark brown 

 and very conspicuously with uuderlyiug inkj'-purple. The four 

 specimens measure respectively: 1-7 by I'lG; I'Tbyl'lT; 1'67 

 by M5; 1-73 by 1-18. 



2. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



22nd June (R. MacFarlane, 



Smiths. Inst.). 

 1. Anderson Kiver Fort, June {li. Seebohm Coll. 



MacF.). 

 1. Fort Anderson {R. MacF.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Genus HELODROMAS, Kaup. 



Helodromas ochropus {Linn.). 



Totanus ochropus, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Viiy. tab. Ixv. tig. \,a-c 



(1845-54) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii p. 834*, pi. xc* (1856) ; 



Wheelwright, Spring 8f Summer in Lapland, p. 350 (1871) ; Dresser, 



Birds Eur. viii. p. 135 (1876) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 862 (1880) ; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 136, pi. 30 (1885); id. Geogr. Distr. 



Charadriidce, p. 368 (1887) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. ];J7, pi. 42. 



figs. 5, 8 (1896); Poyntim/, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 209, pi. 44 



(1895-0). 

 Ilelodromus ochropus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vcig. tab. 30. fig. 5 (1855-63). 

 Helodromas ochropus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 437 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 160 (VSm). 



The eggs of the Green Sandpiper are pyriform, and have a con- 

 siderable amount of gloss. They are of a cream- or light buff- 

 colour, tinged with pink in some instances, green in others, and 

 rather delicately spotted with reddish brown, chocolate-brown, and 

 some underlying pale purple. The markings are sometimes large 

 and somewhat blotchy, but usually they are small, rounded and 

 well-defined. They are more thickly disjiosed over the broad end 

 than elsewhere, but they seldom form a distinct cap at that part. 

 The eggs measure from 1"45 to 1-6 in length, and from 1"1 to 1'2 in 

 breadth. 



