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518 On the Eggs of some American Limicole. 
exceptionally light in colour and sparsely marked. Fig. 2 
is from a clutch of five eggs in Mr. J. M. Goodall’s col- 
lection, and is unusually dark and thickly marked. Figs. 3 
and 4. are more characteristic of the usual type, but possibly 
the greenish tint has to some extent faded from the ground- 
colour in the case of the latter, which is in Major Proctor’s 
collection. 
Twenty-seven eggs, measured by Mr. Raine, average 
35°73 x 25°42 mm.; maximum 388°] x 26°16 mm., minimum 
33°78 X 23°88 mm. The weight of an egg is 367 mg. 
2. Toe Prctoran Sanpprrer. Tringa maculata Vieill. 
(PLE Ser tig.15:) 
The egg figured was obtained during the Mcllhenny 
Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, and was taken on 
June 18, 1898, the incubating bird having been shot from 
its nest on the dry tundra. It was formerly in Mr. H. 
Noble’s collection. Weight 368 mg., size 37°4.x 26 mm. 
3. Barrp’s Sanppirer. Tinga bairdi Coues. (Pl. XI. 
fig. 6.) 
This egg was also obtained by the McIlhenny Expedition, 
on June 15, 1898, at Point Barrow. Only one figure has 
been previously given of the egg of this bird, which, like the 
other two species mentioned above, is now admitted to the 
British List (see ‘ Catalogue of the Eggs in the Brit. Mus.’ 
vol. ii. pl. u. fig. 4). The egg was formerly in Mr. H. 
Noble’s collection, and is now in that of Major Proctor. 
Weight 450 mg., size 34°4 x 24-5 mm. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. 
Figs. 1, 2, and 3 are taken from drawings, by Mr. W. Raine, of eggs of 
Totanus solitarius. The egg represented in fig. 2 was taken 
on June 15, 1906, in N.W. Alberta, by Mr. Evan Thomson (coll. 
J. M. Goodall); that in fig. 1 was taken on June 16, 1905. 
The egg represented in fig. 4 was taken by Mr. Thomson on June 6, 
1906, from an old nest of Turdus migratorius in a tamarac tree, 
15 feet above the ground (coll. F. W. Proctor). 
Fig. 5. Tringa maculata. This egg was taken at Point Barrow by the 
MelIlhenny Expedition (coll. F. W. Proctor). 
Fig. 6. 7. bairdi. Also taken at Point Barrow (coll. F. W. Proctor). 
The figures 4, 5, and 6 are from drawings by the Author. 
