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black and sparsely with underlying pale purple. The markings are 

 "bold and evenly spread over the shell. The eggs measure from 1/7 

 to 1-9 in length, and from 1.13 to 1-23 in breadth. 



4. Falkland Islands (21. McC.). McCormick Bequest. 



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



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



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



Genus OXYECHUS, Reichenb. 



Oxyechus vociferus (Linn.). 



Oharadrius vociferus, Thien. Fortpflanz. gas. Vb'g., tab. lix. fig. 3 (1845- 



54) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 28, pi. 26 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Distr. 



Charadriidce, p. 120 (1887) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 123, pi. 39. 



fig. 2 (1896). 



^Egialites vociferus, Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 33. 

 Oxyechus vociferus, Baird, Brewer fy Ridqw. Water Birds N. Am. . 



p. 148 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 242 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 154 (1899). 

 ^fCgialitis vocifera, Di-esser, Birds Eur. ix. (Suppl), p. 345 (1890) ; 



Poynting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 37, pi. 9 (1895-6). 



The eggs of the Killdeer Plover are pyriform and slightly glossy. 

 The ground-colour is pale creamy-buff, marked, more thickly at the 

 broad end than elsewhere, with spots and small blotches of dark 

 brown and black. Some of the markings take the form of lines and 

 scrawls. The underlying spots of dull purple are very incon- 

 spicuous. Specimens measure from 1*41 to 1'6 in length, and from 

 1-06 to 1-1 in breadth. 



1. North America (Henshaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Fort Benton, N. America (Smiths. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Inst.). 

 4. Little Slave Lake (S. Jones : Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Henshaiu Coll.). 



4. Toronto, Canada. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Washoe Lake, Nevada. 1st June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. W. Henshaio). 



4. Texas (H.E. Dresser). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Ithaca, New York, 4th May (C. J. PrincetonUniversity,N.J. [E.]. 



Pennock). 



Oxyechus tricollaris ( Vieill.). 



Charadrius tricollaris, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. lix. fig. 7 a, b 

 (1845-54) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 134 (1887). 



^Egialitis tricollaris, Harting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 457, pi. Ix. fig. 5 ; Sharpe, 

 ed. Laijard, Birds S. Africa, p. 662 (1875-84). 



Oxyechus tricollaris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 247 (1896) ; id. 

 Hand-l. \. p. 154(1899). 



The eggs of Temminck's Three-banded Plover in the Collection 



