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3. Raipur, C. Provs. Hume Coll. 

 2. Khalispur, Bengal, 30th Nov. (A. Hume Coll. 



J. Rainey}. 



4. Tsurumi, near Yokohama, Japan. J. Cole Hartland, Esq. [P.], 



Rostratula semicollaris ( F.). 

 (Plate III. Hg. 10.) 



Rhynchsea semicollaris, Durnford, Ibis, 1876, p. 164'; Seebohm, Geogr. 



Distr. Charadriidce, p. 459 (1887) ; James, New List Chilian Birds, 



p. 12 (1892). 

 Rostratula semicollaris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 690 (1896) ; 



id. Hand-L i. p. 167 (1899). 



The eggs of the South- American Painted Snipe are of an elongated 

 elliptical form and possess little or no gloss. A few specimens in 

 the Collection are quite indistinguishable from the eggs of R. capensis, 

 being covered with huge black blotches. Others, the majority, are 

 marked with confluent specks, streaks, and small blotches of dark 

 brown in such a manner that very little indeed of the pale yellowish- 

 buff ground-colour is visible. They measure from 1'35 to 1'42 in 

 length, and from *95 to '98 in breadth. 



1. Chile. Old Collection. 



2. Lake Acubeo, Chile, 9th Nov. (H. Seebohm Coll. 



Berkeley James}. 



2. Central Chile, Nov. Berkeley James Coll. 



2. Central Chile, Nov. Berkeley James Coll. 



2. Central Chile, Nov. Berkeley James Coll. 



Sub-Family PHALAROPODIN^E. 



Genus CRYMOPHILUS, V. 

 Crymophilus fulicarius (Linn.}. 



Phalaropus rufescens, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. btf'n. fig. 3. a-c 

 (1845-54). 



Phalaropus fulicarius, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 37. fig. 3 (1855- 

 63); Newton, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 165, pi. xv. tig. 1; Dresser, Birds 

 Eur. vii. p. 605 (1874) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 85, pi. 27 

 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadriidcs, p. 338 (1887) ; id. Eggs of 

 Brit. Birds, p. 130, pi. 38. fig. 3 (1896) ; Poynting, Eggs of Brit. 

 Birds, p. 91, pi. 21 (1895-6). 



Phalaropus lobatus, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 368, pi. civ. 

 fig. ii (1856). 



Crymophilus fulicarius, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 693 (1896) ; 

 id. Hand-l. i. p. 167 (1899). 



The eggs of the Grey Phalarope are sharply pyriform and have a 

 small amount of gloss. The ground varies from olive-buff to huffish 

 brown of different shades, and this is somewhat thickly spotted and 

 blotched with blackish brown, chocolate-brown, and underlying pale 



