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2. Cobbs Island, Virginia, 7th May Princeton University,N.J.[E.]. 



(W.E. D. Scott). 

 2. Cobbs Island, 14th May (W. 



E. D. S.). 



2. Cobbs Island, 10th June (W. 



E. D. S.). 



1. Cobbs Island, 15th June (W. ' 



E. D. S.). 



3. Cobbs Island, 15th June (W. 



E. D. S.). 



2. Cobbs Island, 20th June (W. 



E. D. S.}. 



3. Cobbs Island, 28th June (W. ,, 



E. D. S.}. 



3. Cobbs Island, 28th June (W. 



E. D. S.). 



1. Cobbs Island, 28th June ( W. 



E. D. S.). 



2. Virginia (Dr. Hitz: Henshaw Coll.}. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



2. Old Tampa Bay, Florida, 20th April Princeton University ,N.J. [E.]. 



( W. E. D. Scott). 



3. British Honduras, 18th May (O, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin) . 

 3. British Honduras, 18th May (O. S.). Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



Ochthodromus geoffroyi (Wayl.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 9.) 



JEgialites geottroii, Sivinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 405 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 154. 

 ^Egialitis geoffroyi, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 475 (1878) ; Legge, Birds 



Ceylon, p. 939(1880) ; Harting, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 355; La Touche, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 496. 



Charadrius geoffroyi, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriides, p. 146 (1887). 

 Ochthodromus geoffroyi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M . xxiv. p. 217 (1896): 



id. Hand-l i. p. 153 (1899). 



The eggs of a Plover found by Swinhoe in Formosa and assigned 

 by him to Charadrius longipes (C. dominions) are now in the 

 Collection and probably are, as surmised by ISeebohm, the eggs of 

 the present species. 



The eggs of the Greater Sand-Plover are either pyriform or of an 

 oval shape, and they have a fair amount of gloss. The ground-colour 

 is clear pale buff, generally thickly marked with spots and huge 

 blotches of dark'' umber-brown, or black, and some small spots of 

 pale underlying purple. In a few specimens the markings are 

 comparatively delicate, consisting only of spots and scrawls, but in 

 the majority they are very large and coarse. The eggs are not 

 separable from those of Rostratula capensis. They measure from 

 1-3 to 1*42 in length, and from -95 to 1-07 in breadth. 



10. Formosa (R. Swinh 



Seebohm Coll. 



