6 CHARADKIIDJS. 



1. Australia. Gould Coll. 



2. Australia ( Wilson). Gould Coll. 



1. Troughton Island, N.W. Australia. Lieut. G. Oliver [P.]. 



2. Port Essington, N. Australia. Capt. Chambers [P.]. 



2. Claremont Islands (Capt. Stanley}. Voy. H.M.S. 'Rattlesnake/ 

 1. Howick Islauds, May (J. Mac- Gould Coll. 



gillivray}. 



3. Moreton Bay, N.E. Australia. Gould Coll. 



1. Moreton Bay, N.E. Australia. fealvin-Goduian Coll. 



1. Gippsland, Victoria. F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C. [P.]. 



1 . Island near* Cape Flinders, 12th A ug. Gould Coll. 



(J. Macgillivray). 



2. Cape Barren Island, Bass Straits, Gould Coll. 



28th Oct. 



1. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



Haematopus leucopus, Gam. 



Hajinatopus leucopus, Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 156; Scl. $ Salv. Zool 

 i Challenger ' Exped. ii. pt. viii. p. 108 (1880) ; Seebohm, Geoyr. Distr. 

 Charadriidce, p. 306 (1887) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 113 

 (1896); id. Hand-l. i. p. 147 (1899). 



Hsematopus, sp., Scl. Zool. l Challenger ' Exped. ii. pt. viii. p. 151 (1880). 



The eggs of the Falkland-Islands Pied Oyster-catcher have the 

 ground-colour slightly darker than that of the eggs of H. ostralegus, 

 but do not otherwise differ from them. They measure from 2*2 to 

 2-45 in length, and from 1*5 to 1'65 in breadth. 



The eggs of an Oyster-catcher taken by the ' Challenger ' Expe- 

 dition on the Falkland Islands, and not satisfactorily authenticated 

 at the time, are undoubtedly those of the present species ; the eggs 

 of If. ater, the second species of Oystercatcher inhabiting the same 

 islands, being of quite a different type. 



3. Falkland Islands (C. C. Abbott). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands ( C. C. A.) Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Falkland Islands. McOormick Bequest. 



2. Falkland Islands. Voy. H.M.S. < Challenger.' 



4. Falkland Islands. Purchased. 



Haematopus palliatus, Temm. 



Htematopus palliatus, Baird, Brewer fy Ridytc. Wafer Birds N. Am. i. 

 p. 112 (1884) ; Seebohm, Geoff r. Distr. Charadriida, p. 305 (1887) ; 

 James, New List of Chilian Birds, p. 11 (1892) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xxiv. p. 114 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 147 (1899). 



The eggs of the North-American Pied Oyster-catcher have a much 

 paler ground than those of H. ostralegus, but do not otherwise 

 differ from them. They measure from 2'1 to 2*53 in length, and 

 from 1'5 to 1*6 in breadth. 



1. North America. Old Collection. 



3. Hog- Island, Virginia (Dr. Hitz : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Smiths. Inst.). 



2. Hog Island, 1st July ( W. E. D. Princeton University, N.J. [E.J.- 



