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[§ 3260. Fouwr—* Sarepta.” From Herr Moschler, 1866. | 
[§ 3261. Four.—From Herr Méschler, through Mr. Norgate, 
1869.] 
PLUVIANUS AGYPTIUS (Linnzus). 
[§ 3262. One-—*“Senaar.” From M. Verreaux, 1859. 
Possibly from Herr M. T. von Heuglin, who seems to have met with many 
nests of this species (Orn. Nordost-A frika’s, p. 979), though the figure of its ege 
given by him (op. ect. tab. il. fig. 11) is not satisfactory. Its singular mode 
of nidification seems to have been first described by Dr. A. E. Brehm (Journ. 
fiir Orn. 1853, Extraheft, p. 102), whose account has been confirmed by 
Captain Verner, as quoted by Mr. Seebohm (Monogr. Charadr, pp. 250, 251). | 
CURSORIUS GALLICUS (Gmelin). 
CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 
[§ 3263. Three—From M. Favier, through Mr. J. H. Gurney. 
Two of these I received in 1858, the third in 1861. Probably all are, and 
certainly the first two, the produce of the famous bird which M. Favier kept 
in confinement from April, 1851, until 25 October, 1859, when he, being com- 
pelled to leave Tangier, entrusted her (for she would not accept of liberty) to 
the care of a Moor, but on returning in the April following, found she had died 
of cold in the winter. During that period she laid thirty-six eggs, of which one 
had an imperfect shell. These eges were generally laid, a pair at the interval 
of a few days, and then again with the intermission of a week or more —so as to 
suggest that two is the normal number of the clutch. Thus, in 1853, the first 
year that the bird laid, eggs were produced on the 15th, 16th, and 30th May, 
Ist, 11th, 14th, 23rd, and 26th June. «Neither in 1855 nor in 1858 were any 
eggs laid, and in 1859 only four—6th and 7th July and 9th and 10th August. 
These particulars I take from M. Favier’s interesting manuscript accountof the 
Birds of Tangier, before mentioned in this work, which, after his death in 
December, 1867, was bought from his successor, M. Olcese, by Colonel Irby, who 
generously gave it to the Museum of Zoology of the University of Cambridge, 
it having in the meanwhile served him considerably in the compos:tion of his 
excellent ‘Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar,’ of which two editions haye 
appeared. | 
GQ 
