10 CHARADRIIDJE. 



is occasionally of a lengthened, narrow, oval shape. They have 

 little gloss and sometimes it is entirely absent. The ground-colour 

 varies from olive-huff to olive-green, and this is thickly spotted, 

 streaked, and blotched with deep blackish brown and underlying- 

 pale purple. Six examples measure from 1*85 to 2*15 in length, 

 and from 1-35 to 1'45 in breadth. 



1. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 



3. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



1. New South Wales. Seebohm Coll. 



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



Lobivanellus miles (Bodd.). 



Lobivanellus personatus, Goidd, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 220 (1865) J 



Campbell, Nests fy Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 53 (1883) ; Seebohm, 



Geogr. Distr. Charadnidce , p. 188 (1887). 

 Lobivanellus miles, North, Nests fy Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 301 (1889) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 140 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 149 



(1899). 



The egg of Gould's Wattled Lapwing in the Collection is pyriform 

 and fairly glossy. The ground-colour is of an olive-buff, and is 

 covered very evenly all over with small roundish spots of dark 

 brown, yellowish brown, and underlying pale purple. It measures 

 1-7 by 1-17. 



1. Australia. Sir D. Cooper fP.]. 



Sub-Family CHARADRIIN^E. 

 Genus SARCOGKRAMMUS, Reichenb. 



Sarcogrammns indicus (Bodd.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 4.) 



Lobivanellus goensis, Layard, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. (2) xiv. p. 109 (1854). 

 Lobivanellus iudicus, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 962 (1880) ; Seebohm, Geogr. 



Distr. Charadriidce, p. 184 (1887) ; Oates, ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs 



Ind. Birds, iii. p. 340 (1890) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. ix. (Suppl.) p. 353 



(1896). 

 Sarcoorrammus indicus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 149 (1896) 



id. Hand-l i. p. 150 (1899). 



The eggs of the Indian Red-wattled Lapwing are mostly pyri- 

 form, but the proportion between their length and breadth 

 varies greatly. They have a very slight gloss. The ground-colour 

 is buff of different shades, sometimes tinged with olive, and is 

 boldly streaked and blotched with dark brown or black, often tinged 

 with rufous and yellow. There are also the usual underlying 

 markings of pale purple or grey, which however are inconspicuous. 

 The markings are often denser at the broad end than elsewhere, 

 but they seldom form any well-defined cap. The eggs measure 

 from 1-45 to 1-85 in length, and from 1-13 to 1-3 in breadth. 



