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Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 11 (1888) ; Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 528, pi. xiv. 

 figs. 5, 6 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 304 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. 

 i. p. 155 (1899). 



The eggs of the New Zealand Plover in the Collection differ 

 considerably from each other. One is pyriform and has a cream- 

 coloured ground, delicately marked all over with small umber- 

 brown specks, broken lines, and comma-like streaks, together with 

 some pale purple underlying spots. The other is of a regular oval 

 form, and has an olive-buff ground, very thickly covered with specks 

 and an involved series of lines and scrawls of dark brown, together 

 with a few underlying markings of pale purple. Both have a very 

 slight gloss. They measure respectively : 1-35 by -97 ; 1*4 by 1-03. 



2. Chatham Islands (H. O. Forbes). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus ANARHYNCHUS, Q. $ G. 

 Anarhynchus frontalis, Q. $ G. 



Anarhynchus frontalis, Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. ii. p. 68 (1869), iii. 



p. 93 (1870) ; Harting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 459, pi. Ix. fig. 11 ; Butter,. 



Birds New Zeal. 2nd ed. ii. p. 9 (1888) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxiv. p. 306 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 156 (1899). 

 Charadrius frontalis, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 152 (1887). 



The sole egg of the Wry-billed Plover in the Collection is of a 

 regular oval form and quite gloss-less. It is of an olive-buff colour,, 

 thickly spotted and mottled with very dark umber-brown and 

 underlying pale purple. The markings are very thickly spread over 

 the broader half of the egg, and become more or less confluent at 

 the apex. It measures 1'43 by 1'02. 



1. Otaio River, Canterbury, New Seebohm Coll. 

 Zealand, 20th October (J. JR. 

 Cook : Harting Coll.}. 



Sub-Family PELTOHYATI1SLE. 

 Genus PELTOHYAS, Sharpe. 



Peltohyas australis (Gould). 

 (Plate II. fig. 2.) 



Eudromias australis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 227 (1865); 



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



Linn. Soc. N.S. W. vii. p. 410 (1883) ; North, Nests $ Eggs Austr. 



Birds, p. 303 (1889). 



Charadrius australis, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 110 (1887). 

 Peltohyas australis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 307 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 156 (1899). 



The eggs of the Australian Dotterel in the Collection are pyri- 

 form, and possess a very slight amount of gloss. They are of a pale- 

 buff colour, at times tinged with green, some what sparingly spotted 



