ROSTRATDLA. CRTMOPHILTTS. 69 



3. Raipur, C. Provs. Hume Coll. 

 2. Khalispur, lienofal, 30th Nov. {A. Hume Coll. 



J. Rainey). 



4. Tsurumi, near Yokohama, Japan. J. Cole Hartland, Esq. [P.]. 



Rostratula semicollaris ( V.). 

 (Plate III. fig. 10.) 



Rhyiicbaja semicollaris, Dunifovd, Ibis, 1876, p. 164 : Seehohm, Geoyr. 



Distr. Charndriidce, p. 459 (1887) ; James, New List Chilian Birchf 



p. 12 (1892). 

 Rostratula semicollaris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 690 (1896) ; 



id. Hand-l. i. p. 167 (1899). 



The eggs of the South- American Painted Snipe are of an elongated 

 elliptical form and possess little or no gloss. A tew specimens in 

 the CoUectioii are quiie indistinguishable from the eggs of 11. capensis, 

 being covered with huge black blotches. Others, the majority, are 

 marked with confluent specks, streaks, and small blotches of dark 

 brown in such a manner that very little indeed of the pale yellowish- 

 buff ground-colour is visible. They measure from 1"35 to 1*42 in 

 length, and from 'Qo to '98 in breadth. 



1. Chile. Old Collection. 



2. Lake Acubeo, Chile, 9th Nov. {H. Seebohm Coll. 



Bfrkeley James). 



2. Central Chile, Nov. Berkeley James Coll. 



2. Central Chile, Nov. Berkeley James Coll. 



2. Central Chile, Nov. Berkelev James Coll. 



Sub-Family PHALAROPODIN.^. 



Genus CRYMOPHILUS, V. 

 Crymophilus fulicarius {Linn.). 



Phalaropus rufesceus, Thien. Fortji/icaiz. yes. Voy. tnb. Ix'm. fitr. 3, a-c 

 (184o-o4j. 



Phalaropus fulicarius. Baedeler, Eier Euv. Voy. tab. 37. fig. 3 (1855- 

 63); Newton, F. Z. S. 1867, p. 165, pi. xv. tig. 1; Dresser, Birds 

 Bur. vii. p. 605 (1n74) ; Seeboh)n. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 8-'), pi. 27 

 (1885); id. Geoyr. Distr. C/iaradriidte, Y>- -^'^^ {l&ST) : id. Eqqs of 

 Brit. Birds, p. 130. pi. 38. fig. 3 (1896) ; Foyntiny, Eqys of Brit. 

 Birds, p. 91, pi. 21 (1895-6). 



Phalaropus lobatus, Heivitson, Egys of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 368, pi. civ. 

 fig. ii (1856). 



Crymophilus fulicarius, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. .M. xxiv. p. 693 (1896) ; 

 id. Hand-l. i. p. 167 (1899). 



The eggs of the Grey Phalarope are sharply pyriforra and have a 

 small amount of gloss. The ground varies from olive-buft' to huffish 

 brown of different shades, and this is somewhat thickly spotted and 

 blotched with blackish brown, chocolate-brown, and underlying pale 



