208 TRINGA CANUTUS.—T. MINUTA. 
Plover laid. This egg was empty when found, the contents having run out 
through the broken shell. It was lying in the grass, and how it came to be 
broken he did not know. He pointed out to me the individual Knot which he 
believed was the parent. 
In May, 1894, one of Lord Lilford’s Knots died, and he sent the body to the 
Museum here, asking that it might be carefully examined, for (as subsequently 
appeared) it was. the very bird that Cosgrave believed to have laid the egg the 
year before. Dr. Gadow willingly undertook the examination, and drew up 
a report, from which I extract the following :— 
“ Conditions of generative organs :—as usual, left ovary only developed, left 
oviduct contains a large number of the ordinary unripe eggs, but also a 
smaller number of eg¢s much further developed. These latter, however, were 
not intended to be laid this year, but indicate that some considerable propa- 
gative excitement had been passed through by this bird. Moreover, I feel 
justified in saying that it is my opinion that this bird has laid at least one egg, 
because of the presence of one calyx remnant in the ovary among the ovyula. 
Such a calyx indicates the previous bursting out and setting free of an egg. 
There may be several calyces in this ovary, but I have found only one. 
Lastly, the oviduct is so well developed that it might easily be supposed to 
have performed its function. However, all this must have happened several 
months ago, because ovary and oviduct have had time to return to their 
normal condition... . Swmmary: Although there are no absolute proofs, it is 
my opinion that the Knot sent to the Museum of Zoology and examined by me 
has some time ago laid one, or may be several eggs. 
“26 May, 1894. H. Gapow.” 
I was at Lilford again in July, 1895, and saw the remaining Knots, eight or 
nine in number, some of which were fairly red ; but Cosgrave said he had seen 
no indications of breeding in any of them. He had become positive that the 
bird that died in May, 1894, whose body was examined by Dr. Gadow, was 
the mother of the egg found in the aviary on the 14th of June, 1893, and sent 
to me the same day. 
The impression produced cn me at the first sight of the eez, even before 
the corroborative evidence of Cosgrave and Dr. Gadow was given, still 
prevails, and I believe it to be a Knots, for it is so unlike that of any Reeve 
known to me, and one or the other it must be; but I admit that I may be 
rash, in my ignorance of what a Knot’s egg is really like; for I have not 
sven one that can be indubitably declared to belong to that species. ] 
TRINGA MINUTA, Leisler. 
LITTLE STINT. 
[§ 3967. One.—Taimyr River, N. lat. 74°, 1 July, 1843. 
From Dr. von Middendorff, through Dr. Baldamus, 
1861. 
Proc. Zool. Soe. 1861, p. 398. 
