CHARADRIID2E. 3 



and this is very delicately marked with black, chocolate-brown, and 

 underlying pale purple. The markings consist of firm, well-defined 

 specks and spots, rather thickly set over the whole shell. At the 

 larger end they are frequently intermingled with lines and scrawls, 

 and form a more or less distinct cap. Fourteen specimens measure 

 from 1'4 to 1/7 in length, and from 1*07 to 1-18 in breadth. 



2. Chile. Old Collection. 



2. Tarapaca, N. Chile (Rahmcr). Berkeley James Colk 

 5. Tarapaca (Lane). Berkeley James Coll. 



3. Central Chile (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 

 2. Central Chile (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 



Sub-Order CHARADRIL 

 Family CHARADRIID^E. 



Sub-Family ARENARIIN^E. 

 Genus ARENARIA, Brus. 

 Arenaria interpres (Linn.). 



Tringa morinella, TJiien. Fortpflanz. yes. Vog. tab. Ixi. fig. 1, a-d (1845- 

 54). 



Strepsilas interpres, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 5. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 303, pi. Ixxix. (1856) ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. vii. p. 555(1875); FeiWen, Ibis, 1877, p. 405; id. in 

 Nans' s Narr. Voy. Polar Sea, ii. p. 210 (1878) ; Ler/ge, Birds Ceylon, 

 p. 900 (1880) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriida, p. 410 (1887) ; 

 Poynting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 69, pi. 17 (1895-6). 



Charadrius interpres, Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 12, pi. 24 (1885) ; 

 id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 119. pi. 38. figs. 7, 9 (1896). 



Arenaria interpres, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 92 (1896) ; id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 146 (1899). 



The eggs of the Turnstone are pyriform and possess a fair amount 

 of gloss. The ground-colour is greenish white, pale olive-green, or 

 olive-buff, and this is spotted, blotched, and smeared with various 

 shades of brown, olive-brown, and underlying purplish grey. The 

 markings are coarser and more numerous at the larger end, where 

 they are often confluent and form a cap. Specimens measure 

 from 1*5 to 1'75 in length, and from I'l to 1-2 in breadth. 



3. Grinnell Land, lat. 81 1 N., 30th July Voy. H.M.S. ' Discovery.' 



(C. Hart). 



4. Finmark (Nordvi). Seebohm Coll. 



1. SniSlen Islands, Norway, June. Mr. A. Rosbach [P.], 



2. South Sweden (H. W. Wheelwright). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. South Sweden (//. W. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 2. South Baltic, 3rd June (Bcnzon). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Denmark (Charbonnier : Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



3.- Denmark (Kj&rbolling). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Island of Lesso, Denmark (Benzori). Seebohm Coll. 



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