458 MR. J. E. HARTING ON THE EGGS [Julie 16, 



about the beginning of September, and breeding shortly afterwards, 

 although I have also found a nest with fresh eggs in it in October. 

 The eggs, three in number, are generally laid on a bank at a short 

 distance from the beach, without any nest, being merely deposited in 

 a hole." 



This species is not confined to the Falkland Isles, but is met with 

 also throughout Patagonia and Chili. 



^Egialitis collaris (Vieillot). (Plate LX. fig. 7.) 



This is one of the birds which Mr. Edward Bartlett found breeding 

 on the Upper and Lower Ucayali (c/. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 309). 

 His note on the species is to the effect that it breeds on the sand 

 banks in company with Chordeiles rupestris and Phaethusa magniros- 

 tris, laying two, sometimes four eggs, smaller but similarly coloured 

 to those of our Little Ringed Plover. From a comparison of the 

 eggs, I may add that those of J£. collaris are of a richer or warmer 

 colour than those of JE. minor, which in other respects they much 

 resemble. From what we know of the habits of its congeners, no 

 doubt the full complement of eggs is always four. 



Lobivanellus lobatus (Latham). 



Mr. Gould has kindly presented me with eggs of this and the fol- 

 lowing species from New South Wales. In his ' Birds of Australia,' 

 and subsequently published ' Handbook ' on the same subject, he has 

 mentioned various localities for this bird in Southern and Western 

 Australia, and he was then of opinion that it was not found in North 

 Australia. Specimens, however, have reached me from Wide Bay, 

 Queensland, so that it is evident the species is pretty generally dis- 

 tributed. It is found in Tasmania and on the islands of Bass's 

 Straits — particularly on Green Island, where it breeds. It frequents 

 marshy ground and the borders of inland pools and lakes, and breeds 

 in September and October. Mr. E. P. Ramsay, who has figured the 

 eggs of this and the following species (Ibis, 1867, pi. ix.), states that 

 " the eggs, which are four in number, are placed with the thin ends 

 inwards, and laid upon the ground by the side of some tuft of grass 

 or rushes, in a slight hollow made for their reception, with occa- 

 sionally a few blades of grass placed under and around them, but as 

 often as not without any sign of a nest." 



This Plover, like the well-known European Lapwing, shows great 

 anxiety for its eggs and young, fluttering off at the approach of an 

 intruder, and using every artifice, by feigning broken leg or wing, to 

 entice him away from the spot. 



Sarciophorus pectoralis (Cuvier). 



According to the observations of Mr. E. P. Ramsay (I. c.) this 

 bird breeds in similar situations to the last named, but somewhat 

 earlier in the season. It is more local, however, and frequents drier 

 tracts of country. Mr. Morton Allport has recorded the fact of its 

 breeding in Tasmania (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania, 1859, vol. i. 



