APPENDIX. 349 



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JSgialitis peroni. 



The specimens noted below have the ground-colour pale buff, but 

 otherwise resemble the eggs already described. 



2. Labuan, Borneo, Dec. (J. Whitehead). Crowley Bequest. 



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.ffigialitis alexandrina. 



3. Tunis, June (Tristram Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Tzhar,* Algeria, 4th June ( JJ r . If. Crowley Bequest. 



Simpson: Tristram Coll.). 



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JEgialitis marginata ( V.}. 



JEgialitis marginata, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 659 (1875- 

 84) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 282 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. 

 p. 154 (1899); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 214 (1899). 



Charadrius marginatus, Seebohm, Geogr. I)istr. Charadriidcs, p. 161 



(1887). 



An egg of the White-breasted Plover in the Collection is pyriform 

 and without gloss. It is of a pale creamy-buff colour, delicately 

 spotted and scribbled over with very dark brown and lavender-grey. 

 It measures 1-25 by -92. 



1. Namaqua-land. Crowley Bequest. 



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JEgialitis pallida (Strickl.). 



Charadrius marginatus, var. tenellus, Milne-Edwards $ Grandidier, Hist. 



Nat. Madag., Ois. ii. p. 509, pi. 305. fig. 5 (1885\ 

 Charadrius marginatus tenellus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidcs, 



p. 163 (1887). 

 ^Egialitis pallida, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 284 (1896) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 155 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 214 (1899). 



The eggs of the Tropical White-breasted Plover vary from pyri- 

 form to an oval shape and exhibit a small amount of gloss. They 

 are of a buff colour, thickly blotched all over with black and pale 

 inky-purple. The markings are more or less confluent, but do not 

 form either a cap or a zone at the broad end. Specimens measure 

 from 1-35 to 1-4 in length, and from -93 to 1 in breadth. 



7. Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



