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Like Golden Plover ( Charadrius pluvialis)^ at times they 

 indulge in high, wild, dashing flight, careering and wheeling 

 hither and thither, uttering a twittering whistle. 



Capt. Abbott says this Plover arrives in the Falkland Islands 

 about the beginning of September and breeds shortly afterwards, 

 although he also found a nest with fresh eggs in October. The 

 eggs are generall}^ laid on a bank at a short distance from the 

 beach, without any nest, being merely deposited in a hole. 



In Central Patagonia, Durnford records it resident, and 

 plentiful on the banks of Lake Colguape and up the Sengel E. 

 The nest he describes as a mere hollow scraped in the sand, 

 and paved with fragments of small shells. The eggs are of 

 a sandy ground colour, spotted and streaked, chiefly at the large 

 end, with black. They measure 1*4 by 1 inches. 



PLUVIANELLUS SOCIABILIS (Hombron et Jacquinot) 



PlUVianelluS SOCiabiliS, Homhron et Jacquinot, Voy. " Astrolabe " 

 et " Zelee,^' Zool., iii, p. 125, pi. xxx, 1853 ; Seehohm, Geogr. Bistrih. 

 CharadriidcB, p. 107, pi. ii, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 

 p. 303, 1896. 



Habitat — Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. 



? , Useless Bay Settlement, 16tli Sept., 1904 ; (J, 5tli N'ov., 1904. 



Iris — crimson; bill — black, nostril — dull crimson; legs and feet — coral 

 pink, toe nails — black. 



A single example of the exquisitely beautiful Magellan 

 Plover was obtained by Capt. King in the " Adventure," 

 but there appears to be no record of it in writing by 

 him ; and this bird was only described by Hombron and 

 Jacquinot in 1853, from a specimen collected by the "Astrolabe" 

 and "Z^lee" Expedition. There are, I believe, only two 

 specimens in British collections : namely, the above-mentioned 



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