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yellowish-white ground colour slightly tinged with dull green, 

 and are very finely freckled all over with pin-point markings of 

 yellowish-brown. Length, (A) M2 x 0-88 inch, (B) M2 x 0-89 

 inch, (C) M2 X 0-87 inch. 



I cannot agree with Mr. Ogilvie Grant"^ in uniting S. 

 dieme7iensis, with this species, the wing-measurement being fully 

 one inch longer than in S. austra/is. Moreover the eggs of 

 S. diemenensis are larger, the ground color is a deeper green, and 

 the marking more conspicuous. A set of the latter taken at 

 Boat Harbor, on the North-west coast of Tasmania measure as 

 follows, length, (A) 1-38 x 0-99 inch, (B) 1-3 x 0-97 inch, (0) 

 1-33 X 1 inch, (D) 1-33 x 0-98 inch, (E) 1-32 x 0-98 inch, 1-31 x 

 €•96 inch. Eggs of S. australis taken in Tasmania are similar 

 in colour and size to those of continental birds of this species. 



No. 64. LoBiVANELLUS MILES (Masked Plover). 



Tringa miles, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 51 (1783). 



Lohivanellus persoyiatus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., vol., VI., pi. 

 10 (1848). 



Lohivanellus miles, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. I., 

 2nd series, p. 1,099 (1886); North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., 

 p. 301 (1889); Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. XXIV. p. 140 

 (1896). 



Two eggs, taken on the 8th of March, 1897, from the margin 

 of a swamp about five miles from the junction of the Fitzroy and 

 Margaret Rivers. They are rounded ovals in form, and of a 

 yellowish-stone ground colour, slightly tinted with olive, with 

 freckles, spots, and larger irregular-shaped markings of olive- 

 brown and blackish brown distributed over the entire surface of 

 the shell, together with a few superimposed spots of dull bluish- 

 black. Length, (A) 0-68 x 0*3 inch, (B) 0-63 x 0-31 inch. 



No. 65. Hypot^nidia philtppensis (Land Rail). 



Mallus philippensis, Linn., Syst. Nat. tom. L, p. 263 (1766). 



Malhis pectoralis, Gould, Bds. Austr., vol. VI., pi. 76 (1848). 



Hypotoinidia philippensis, Nortb, Nests and Eggs of Austr. 

 Bds., p. 328 (1889) ; Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. XXVIIL, 

 p. 39 (1894). 



Three eggs, taken in February, 1897. They are a pale cream- 

 buff ground colour, with rounded spots and a few blotches of 

 chestnut-red and dark bluish-grey, the latter colour appearing as 

 if beneath the surface of the shell. Length, (A) 1*32 x 1*03 inch, 

 (B) 1-33 x 1-03 inch, (C) 1-37 x 1-03 inch. 



* Grant, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. vol. XXII, p. 247 (1893). 



