TOT AN ITS. 



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Tetanus calidris (Linn.). 



Tetanus calidris, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixiv. fig. o, am (1845- 

 54); Hewitson, Eyys of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 329, pi. Ixxxix. (1856); 

 Sounders, Ibis, 1871, p. 387 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 157 (1875); 

 Scully, Stray Feathers, iv. p. 189 (1876) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 852 

 (1880); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 140, pi. 32(1885); id, Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadriidfs, p. 353 (1887) ; id. Eyys of Brit. Birds, p. 140, 

 pi. 44. figs. 2, 5(1896) ; Poynting, Eggs of 'Brit. Birds, p. 217, pi. 46 

 (1895-6); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 414 (1896); id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 160 (1899). 



Gainbetta calidris, Baedeker, Eur. Vog. tab. 37. fig. 4 (1854-63). 



The eggs of the Common Eedshank are pyriform, and have a fair 

 amount of gloss. The ground varies from cream-colour or pale buff 

 to a rich ochraceous buff, and this is spotted and blotched with rich 

 chocolate-brown and black, with underlying pale purple. The 

 markings on the broad end of the egg are bolder than elsewhere and 

 frequently form an irregular cap. All four specimens forming 

 the clutch taken by Colonel H. W. Feilden in Norfolk are of a pale 

 blue colour, minutely speckled with rufous, and are quite abnormal. 

 Numerous examples measure from 1-62 to 1-9 in length, and from 

 1-13 to 1-3 in breadth. 



2. Great Britain. 



4. Loch Awe, Sutherlandshire 

 (Hargitt Coll.). 



3. Knockie, Inverness-shire (Hargitt 



Coll.) 

 3. Knockie (Hargitt Coll.). 



3. Whitebridge, Inverness-shire, May 



(Hargitt Coll.). 



4. Carlisle, llth May. 



4. Wells, Norfolk, 22nd June. 



4. Walney Wash, Cambridge, 17th 



May ( W. Farren). 

 4. Leadenhall Market, London. 

 4. Smolen Islands, Norway, May. 

 4. Kistrand, Norway, 22nd June 



(H. Seebohm). 

 4. Varanger Fjord, Norway, Juno 



(Nordvi). 

 4. Valkenswaard, Holland, 23rd May 



(H. Seebohm). 



2. Valkenswaard, 24th May (H. S.). 

 1. Valkenswaard, 28th May (H. S.). 

 1. Valkenswaard, 29th May (H. S.). 



3. Rottum, Holland, June ( T. Holland}. 



4. Holland. 



4. St. Humbert, Belgium, 6th June 



(J. Baker). 

 1. San Lucas, Spain (H. Saunders : 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 4. Yarkand, Central Asia, 22nd April 



(J. Scully). 

 4. Yarkand, 22nd April (J. S.). 



Montagu Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Rev. A. H. Macpherson [P.]. 

 Col. H. W. Feilden [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



