AVES CHARADRIID/E. 265 



small coleoptera, the young of Littorinje, small crustaceans, coarse gravel 

 and scales of fishes, the latter perhaps swallowed accidentally.' 



"I possess a series of the eggs of this species from Sweden, Norway, 

 Finland, and Denmark, which are dull greenish grey in ground-colour, and 

 are more or less spotted and blotched with dull purplish underlying shell- 

 markings, and dark brown overlying surface-blotches, some having these 

 latter small and closely scattered over the surface of the shell, whereas in 

 others they are larger and more scantily strewn. One egg is dull light 

 olive-green, with but few markings, except at the larger end, where it is 

 rather heavily blotched." (H. E. Dresser, Birds of Europe, Vol. VII. 

 p. 563 (1871-1881.) 



Subfamily HjEMATOPODIN^E. 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIV. p. 105 (1896); id., Hand-List Bds. 

 I. p. 147 (1899). 



Genus H^MATOPUS Linnaeus. 



Type. 



Ostralega, Briss. Orn. V. p. 38 {1760) H. ostralegus. 



Hcematopus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 257 (1766); Sharpe, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIV. p. 105 (1896); id., 

 Hand-List Bds. I. p. 147 (1899) H. ostralegiis. 



Melanibyx, Reichenb. Nat. Syst. Vog. p. XII (1852) . . H. moqui)ii. 



Geographical Range. — Almost cosmopolitan. 



H^MATOPUS LEUCOPUS Garnot. 

 Hcematopus lencopod/is, Gdixn. Ann. Sci. Nat. VII. p. 47 (1826: Falkland 



Islands). 

 Ostralega kiicopits, Garn. & Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. I. p. 721 (1826). 

 Hc£matopns. litcfitosiis, Cuv. R^gn. Anim. I. p. 584 (1829); Schl. Mus. 



Pays Bas, IV. Cursores, p. 74 (1865: Falkland Islands); Gray, 



Hand-1. B. III. p. 21, no. 10058 (1871 : Tierra del Fuego). 

 Hematopits cr/r/ZcvAs-, Jard. ed. Wils. Am. Orn. III. p. 35, pi. LXIV. (1832); 



Gray, Gen. B. III. p. 547 (1847). 

 Hcematopns leucopiis, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Grail, p. 72 (1844: Tierra 



del Fuego: Falkland Islands); id. Gen. B. III. p. 547 (1847); Scl. 



