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annoyini^-, by announcing- to every other bird and animal his 

 approach." 



The Tero-Tero would seem to be rare in the Falkland 

 Islands, for Capt. Abbott obtained a single example, and 

 mentions another being seen a short time afterwards. 



Common as the nests of these birds must be, I never found 

 more than some broken egg shells. An egg given me by Mr. 

 Betts of Useless Bay Settlement is pyriform, inclining to oval, 

 resembling in shape rather the egg of a Snipe than of a Peewit. 

 The colour is olive, marked somewhat finely with black spots 

 over the entire surface. It measures 2*05 by 1*4 inches. The 

 series in the British Museum consists of five with the green 

 ground somewhat faded, and one rufous brown. 



EUDROMIAS MODESTA (Lichtenstein) 



CharadriuS modestUS, Lichtenstein, Verzeich. Doubl. Zool. Mus. 



Berlin, p. 71, 1823. 

 VanellUS Cincta, Lesson et Garnot, Voij. " Coquille,'' i, p. 126, pi. xliii, 



1826. 

 CharadriuS rubeCOla, Kmg, Zool. Joum., iv, p. 96, 1829 ; Seebohm, 



Geogr. Distrib. Cliaradrndce, pi. i, 1887. 

 Squatarola cincta, S. fUSCa, Gould and Darwin, Voy. ''Beagle," 



Birds, p. 126, 1841. 

 Eudromias urvillii, Abbott, Ibis, p. 155, 1861. 

 Eudromias modesta, JDumford, ibis, p. 197, 1877, p. 402, 1878; 



Sdater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, p. 171, 1889. 

 Zonibyx modesta, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, p. 238, 1896. 



Habitat. — Uruguay and tlie Argentine Republic, to Tierra del Fuegoj the 

 Falkland Islands. 



S, (S, Cheena Creek Settlement, 17th Nov., 1904. 

 Iris — brown J bill — black; legs — greenish- drab. 



The Red-breasted Plover arrives in the island a little later 

 than the Tero-Tero. I saw my first pair on dry grass-land 



