26 



Five examples measure from 1-15 to T32 in length, and from -85 

 to *9 in breadth. 



2. Labuan, Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



3. Engano, N.E. Luzon. J. Whitehead, Esq. [C.]. 



JEgialitis alexandrina (Linn.). 



Charadrius cantianus, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 298, pi. 



Ixxvii. fig. iii (1856) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 25, pi. 26 (1885) ; 



id. Geoyr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 168 (1887) j id. Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 122, pi. 40. tigs. 4, 6 (1896). 

 JEgialites cantiacus, Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 355. 

 JEgialites cantianus, Tristram, Ibis, 1860, p. 78 ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, 



p. 405 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 947 (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests fy 



Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. p. 337 (1890) ; Poyntiny, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 



p. 33, pi. 8 (1895-6). 

 JEgialitis cantiana, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 483 (1876) j Sharpe, Ibis, 



1891, p. 113. 

 Charadrius cantianus dealhatus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, 



p. 170 (1887). 

 JEgialitis alexandrina, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 275 (1896) ; 



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



The eggs of the Kentish Plover are pyriform and glossless. The 

 ground-colour varies from a pale to a dark buff, occasionally tinged 

 with pale green, and is covered, pretty evenly all over, with specks, 

 spots, and scrawls of dark brown or black, together with some small 

 underlying markings of pale purple. They measure from 1*16 to 

 1*36 in length, and from -85 to -95 in breadth. 



2. Eye, Sussex (P. Godman). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Dungeness, Kent. Gould Coll. 



2. Lydd, Kent, 25th May (H. Seebohm Coll. 



Sounders). 



5. Baie de Somme, France (Noury : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 



2. Sylt, Denmark, 30th May. H. Durnford, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Missoloughi, Greece, 25th May (H. Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm). 



4. Missolonghi, 25th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Missolonghi, 25th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Missolonghi, 25th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Missolonghi, 25th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Smyrna, 12th June (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Chot Saboun, Algeria, 5th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (H. B. Tristram $ W. H. Simpson). 



3. Chot Saboun, 15th June (H. B. T. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



$ W.H.S.). 

 1. Chot Saboun, 15th June (H. B. T. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sr W. H. S.). 

 1. Chot Saboun, 21st June (H. B. T. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



# W.H.S.). 

 1. Ain Djendeli, Algeria, 20th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(O. Salvin). 

 6. Tunis. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



