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I was a yard from it, and hobbled away with both wings drooping as if 

 broken, in the most natural manner possible. The full clutch is three 

 (two of the four nests having that number). They are pointed in shape, 

 of an olive ground color, with black spots (similar to the Lapwings, in 

 short) and average iM X i^"." (Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 163.) 



Abbott, writing of this bird at East Falkland, says : "This plover is a 

 spring visitor, arriving about the beginning of September, and breeding 

 shortly afterwards, although I have also found a nest with fresh eggs in 

 it in October. The eggs, three in number, are generally laid on a bank 

 at a short distance from the beach without any nest, being merely deposited 

 in a hole." (Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 155.) 



" Resident and frequently observed on the banks of the Colguape and 

 subsequently up the Sengel. 



" I took fresh eggs and also young in the down of this species on the 

 29th of September from the shores of a large brackish lagoon near the 

 Chupat valley. The nest is a mere hollow scraped in the sand, and paved 

 with fragments of small shells. The eggs are of a sandy ground color, 

 spotted and streaked (chiefly at the larger end) with black. They measure 

 1.4 X I inch." (Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 402.) 



The British Museum has five males and a single female of this species 

 [A. falklandica), all in full adult plumage, collected by J. Koslowsky, at 

 Lake Blanco, Chubut, in September, October and November. 



Genus PLUVIANELLUS Jacquemont & Pucher. 



Type. 



Phtviaiie/liis, Jacq. & Pucher, Voy. Pole Sud. Zool. III. p. 

 124 (1853); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXIV. p. 

 303 (1896); Sharpe Hand-List Bds. I. p. 155 (1899). P. sociabilis. 



Geographical Range. — Peculiar to Patagonia. 



