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black belly ; and I decided to take my first good chance of a 
shot at him, and then to devote another half hour toa search 
for the nest. He proved to be, as I suspected, the Asiatic 
Golden Plover, with grey axillaries. My search for the nest 
was a very short one. I found it in less than five minutes, 
within a dozen yards of my position. It was a mere hollow 
in the ground upon a piece of turfy land, overgrown with _ 
moss and lichen ; and it was lined with broken stalks of rein- 
deer moss. The eggs, four in number, were a size smaller 
than those of the Golden Plover, averaging 136 x 143. ee 
of the Golden Plover from the same Ree average 2,%, 
116.) These eggs were taken on the 18th of July, and mere 
very much incubated. 
Among the eggs which had been collected for me at Gol- 
checka was asecond sitting of Asiatic Golden Plover’s. Here 
the bird was extraordinarily common. I tried to watch 
several birds onto the nest, but in every case without success. 
They behaved exactly as if they had young. I succeeded in 
catching one young bird in down, and reluctantly came to 
the conclusion that I was too late (on the 20th of July) for 
eggs. The young in down is quite as yellow as that of the 
Golden Plover. 
In ‘ The Ibis’ for 1863, p. 404, Swinhoe represents this bird 
as breeding plentifully on- Formosa. The eggs are described 
as measuring 14° x 1,4,. These eggs are still in the Swinhoe 
collection, and average : 46x 14%. They exactly resemble my 
eggs in colour, but are much Snalles and rounder at the small 
end. Two other eggs in the same collection, of exactly the 
same colour and shape, and from the same locality, are marked 
Aigialitis geass. These two eggs are a shade smaller, 
measuring 143 x1; but I am induced to think that Swinhoe 
has been led an = his collectors, and that all these Formosa 
eggs belong to &. geoffrow. Swinhoe further states that C. 
fulvus is common on Formosa “all the year round.” Unfor- 
tunately the skins of this bird from Formosa in the Swinhoe 
collection are not dated. I have no doubt that great numbers of 
this bird pass through Formosa in breeding-plumage in spring, 
and again in winter plumage in autumn. Some may very 
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