4 CHAEADEIID^. 



Dunkeld towards Aberfeldy or Blair Athol, I often watched several birds sitting 

 on their eggs in the fields near the line. The last time I passed through this 

 glen in spring Oyster-catchers were by no means so numerous as in former days, 

 though a few were noticed near the station at Ballinluig. I have also seen the 

 eggs lying openly on the summit of some of the large detached blocks of rock 

 that are found along the shore off the west coasts of Ross and Sutherland." 



Mr. H. Seebohm says the eggs " vary in length from 2'35 to 2'07 inch, and 

 in breadth from 1-6 to 147 inch." * 



Mr. H. E. Dresser states that the measurements of a series of eggs of this 

 species in his collection vary from 2'4 by 1'57 inch to 2-17 by 1"47 inch.f 



* ' History of British Birds,' vol. iii. p. 8. 



t ' History of the Birds of Europe,' vol. vii. p. 573. 



