3G2 ArpEXDix. 



covered with a very close entanglement of lines of a purplish-brown 

 colour. It measures 1'22 by ■i)S. 



1. Kalahari Desert, S. Africa (Farini). Crowley Bequest. 



Page 76. Add ; — 



Ehinoptilus bicinctus (Temm.). 



Cursorius bicinctus, Thien. Fortpjlanz. yes. Vog. tab. Iviii. fig. 3 (1845-54) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Laynrd, Birds S. Africa, p. 654 (1875-84); Seebohm, 



Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 242 (18S7). 

 Hhinoptilus bicinctus, Shcuye, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 4-3 ; id. Hund-l. 



i. p. 170 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersmnml.^. 210 (1899). 



Two eggs of Levaillant's Courser in the Collection are inseparable 

 from many of the paler-coloured eggs of Cursorius coi-omamleHcus, 

 and they differ remarkably from those of Ilhinojjtilus chalcoj)terus 

 taken by Mr. Crawshay. 



1. Cape Colony {E. L. Layard: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



1. Cape Colony {T. C. Atmore : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



Pape 76. Add : — 



Genus STILTIA, Bp. 



Stiltia Isabella ( F.j. 



Glareola grallaria, Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 243 (1865) ; Seebohm, 



Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 263 (1887); North, Nests 4' Eg(is 



Austr. Birds, p. 308, pi. xvi. fig. 9 (1889). 

 Stiltia isabella, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 51 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. 



i. p. 170 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests ^- Eggs Amtr. Birds, ii. p. 769, 



pi. 21 (1901). 

 Stiltia isabellina, Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 210 (1899). 



The eggs of the Australian Pratiucole in the Collection are of 

 a pointed oval form and devoid of gloss. They are smaller than 

 the eggs of Galactochrysea ocularis, but otherwise resemble tliem so 

 very closely as to require no separate description. They measure 

 respectively : 1-29 by -95 ; 1-3 by '9. 



2. Lachlan River, N. S. Wales, 11th Crowley Bequest. 



Oct. (A. J. North). 



Page 76. Add :— 



Glareola pratiucola. 



3. Tzhar, Algeria, 4th June (H. B. Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram). 

 3. Tzhar, 6th June {H. B. T.). Crowley Bequest. 



