74 CUB80RIID2E. 



Sub-Order CURSORIL 

 Family CURSOKIID^E. 



Genus PLUVIANUS, V. 



Pluvianus aegyptius (Linn.). 



Charadrius aegyptiacus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. ic. fig. 18 



(1845-54). 

 Pluvianus melaaocephalus, Baedeker. Eier Eur. Voq. tab. 22. fig. 1 



(1855-63). 



Oharadrius aegyptius, Bree, Birds Eur. iv. p. 14, pi. (1867). 

 Pluvianus segvpticus, Heuql. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. i. p. 976, pi. 49. 



fig. 11 (1873). 

 Pluvianus segyptius, Harting*, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 456, pi. Ix. fig. 2 ; Bree, 



torn. cit. 2nd ed. iv. p. 171, pi. (1875) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. 



p. 521 (1878) ; Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 32 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 169 (1899). 

 Cursorius eegyptius, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 248 (1887). 



^ The eggs of the Black-backed, or Black-headed, Plover in the 

 Collection are of a blunt oval form and are without gloss. One 

 example is cream-colour, and the other has a pale buff ground. 

 The markings consist of specks, small spots, and streaks of yellowish 

 brown, rather thickly set over the whole shell, and a few under- 

 lying spots of dull purplish grey. Two specimens measure 

 respectively : 1-25 by 9 ; 1-25 by '95. 



2. Ambukol, Soudan, 20th April Seebohm Coll. 



(Col. Willoughby Verne?'). 



Genus CURSORIUS, Lath. 



Cursorius gallicus (Gm.). 



Cursor europadus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 59. fig. 1 (1855-63). 



Cursorius gallicus, Hewitson, Ibis, ]859, p. 79, pi. ii. fig. 3 , Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. vii. p. 425 (1875); Seebohm, Brit. Birds,. \\\. p. 63, 

 pi. 20 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 235 (1887) ; id. Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, p. 128, pi. 36. fig. 3 (1896); Meade- Waldo, Ibis, 

 1889, pp. 11, 505: 1893, p. 203; Pointing, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 11, pi. 3 (1895-6) ; Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 34 (1896) ; 

 id. Hand-l. i. p. 169 (1899). 



The eggs of the Cream-coloured Courser are of a regular oval 

 form, but a few specimens are nearly elliptical. They have little 

 or no gloss. The ground varies from cream-colour to pale buff, and 



* The egg figured by Mr. Harting does not resemble the two examples in 

 the Collection. 



