1882. ] ON RARE BIRDS EGGS FROM MADAGASCAR. 353 
notes that the male of G. lewcogeranos has a convoluted trachea, 
only slightly folded in the carina sterni, extending in it for less than 
half its extent!; whilst in the female “ there was formed a genu of 
small size, that does not enter the carina sterni.’ The female of 
G. carunculata examined had a trachea as well convoluted as the 
most developed forms of G. americana, whilst in the male the con- 
dition was as in the female of G. leucogeranos. 
Grus australasiana. 3 [?Q |. 
—— canadensis. Co. 
In Tetrapteryx paradisea, according to Yarrell and Tegetmeier, 
as well as in Anthropoides virgo according to Parsons and Yarrell, 
the trachea is convoluted, but does not enter the carina sterni, being 
contained in a special groove developed along the anterior margin 
of that bone. 
[In both species of Balearica the trachea is known to be quite 
simple; and the same is probably true in dramus scolopaceus. | 
3. On the Eggs of some rare Wading Birds from Madagascar. 
By J. E. Hartine, F.L.S., F.Z.8. 
[Received March 21, 1882. ] 
Amongst a large collection of eggs recently brought from Made- 
gascar by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan, many of which are of con- 
siderable interest as being hitherto undescribed, are the eggs of three 
species of Limicole which I should like to bring before the notice 
of this Society, since they belong to members of a group to which 
I have for some years been paying special attention. 
Mr. Deans Cowan collected in the neighbourhood of Fianarantsoa 
in the Betsileo country, situated in the south central portion of 
Madagascar ; and the extent of his collection shows how rich a 
field for ornithologists is the district in which he has for some years 
resided. 
The three species of Wading-birds of which I now exhibit the 
eggs, as well as the skins, are a Pratincole (Glareola ocularis, 
Verreaux), a Sand-Plover ( Aigialitis geoffroyi, Wagler), and a Snipe 
(Gallinago macrodactyla, Bonaparte). ‘The Pratincole and Snipe, 
which so far as I am aware have not been met with out of Madagascar, 
are both very rare in collections; the Sand-Plover, being generally 
distributed throughout Southern Asia, the Malay Archipelago, and 
Eastern Africa, is very uch better known. 
1. GLAREOLA ocuLARis, Verreaux, was first brought to the 
notice of naturalists by the late Jules Verreaux so long ago as 1833, 
when at a meeting of the South-African Institution at Cape Town in 
that year he exhibited and described a specimen, which, with other 
skins, he had then lately received from Madagascar. 
1 The observations of Mr. A. O. Hume (cf. Tegetmeier’s ‘ Cranes,’ p. 39, &e.) 
do not, therefore, always hold good for this species. ; 
24* 
