EINGED PLOVEE. 5 



breadth from 1'05 to "98 inch, the larger dimensions being those of British 



examples If the first eggs are removed others will be laid, sometimes 



in the same nest ; but there appears to be no satisfactory evidence that the bird 

 rears more than one brood in the year." 



Mr. H. E. Dresser states that the measurements of eggs of this species in his 

 collection vary from 1-35 by I'O inch to 1'25 by '95 inch.* 



* ' History of the Birds of Europe,' vol. vii. p. 502. 



