28 CHARADRIIDJ3. 



Charadrius cantianus nivosus, Seebohw. Geoyr. Dittr. Charadriid<8, p. 171 



(1887). 

 ^Egialitis nivosa, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 290 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l i. p. 155 (1899). 



The eggs of the Snowy Sand-Plover in the Collection are closely 

 alike. Two are somewhat pyriform, the third is of a regular 

 oval shape. They are all glossless. The ground-colour is very 

 pale creamy-buff, rather elegantly marked with spots, lines, and 

 scrawls of dark brown or black, and a few underlying markings 

 of pale purple. Three specimens measure respectively : 1/2 by 

 87; I'M by -9; 1-27 by -91. 



3. Santa Barbara, California, 8th July Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 (H. W. Henshaw). 



JEgialitis meloda (Ord). 



./Egialitis meloda, Baird, Brewer 8f Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 160 



(1884) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 155 (1899). 



Charadrius melodus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidee. p. 121 (1887). 

 melodus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 292 (1896). 



The eggs of the American Piping Plover are pyriform and are 

 occasionally very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is of a very 

 pale creamy-buff, marked all over, but not thickly, with small 

 round spots of umber-brown or black, together with others of pale 

 purple. The markings are very well-defined, and it is seldom that 

 two spots coalesce together. Eight examples measure from 1*17 to 

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



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



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

 4. Ipswich, Massachusetts (S. L. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Greemvood : Henshaw Coll.). 



2. Barnegat, New Jersey, 28th June PrincetonUniversity,N.J.rE.l 



( W. E. D. Scott). 



JEgialitis occidentals, Cab. 



Charadrius occidentals, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriid^,^. 174(1887). 

 ^Egialitis occidentalis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 295 (1896) : 

 id. Hand-l. i. p. 155 (1899). 



The eggs of Cabanis's Sand-Plover in the Collection resemble 

 those of ^E. nivosa, already described, and cannot be separated from 

 them. They measure respectively: 1-27 by -9 ; 1-27 by *9; 1-23 

 by -96. 



3. Chile. Old CoUection. 



JEgialitis falklandica (Lath.}. 



^gialitis falklandica, Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 155 ; Harting, P. Z. 8. 1874, 

 ' p. 457, pi. Ix. fig. 6; Durnford, Ibis, 1878, p. 402; Gibson, Ibis, 

 1880, p. 163; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 295 (1896): id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 155 (1899). 



