EUDBOMIAS. 303 



A set of four taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Tyndarie, measure 

 as follows :— length (A) 1-67 x 1-22 inch ; (B) 1-72 x 1-23 inch ; 

 (C) 1-75 X 1-25 inch ; (D) 1-58 x M8 inch. 



Sab. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and ■ South Australia, West and South-west 

 Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Genus EUDEOMIAS, Boie. 



EUDROMIAS AUSTRALIS, Gould. 



Australian Dotterel. 



GouU, Handhk. Bds. Ausi., Vol. ii., sp. 505, p. 227. -XJ^ ? 



" The habitat of this species is the interior portion of the 

 Province of South Australia, and the interior of New South Wales 

 but as far as is yet known, it is nowhere plentiful ; sometimes it 

 is met with in the Melbourne markets during the game season, 

 and is considered a rare bird by the dealers. Mr. E. G. Vickery 

 has been fortunate enough to obtain the nest and eggs during a 

 surveying trip in the Darling River District near Wilcannia. The 

 eggs were placed on the ground among a few loose stones near the 

 summit of a small hillock or " rise " in the level country, and 

 placed on a little mound about two inches high, probably an old 

 ant-hill ; they were three in number, a pair measure as follows : — 

 length (A) 145 x 1-05 inch ; (B) 1-45 x 1-03 inch. In form they 

 are rather less pointed than the usual pyriform shape of Plover's 

 eggs ; the ground colour is of a deep rich cream or buff, sparingly 

 sprinkled all over with irregular spots, and some elongated crooked 

 markings of chocolate black with a few minute dots and dashes 

 of a lighter tint, the markings look black in certain lights, but of 

 a chocolate tint in others. Specimens in Mr. Bennett's Colleotion 

 were taken during the month of October, on the Lachlan River 

 near Mossgiel." {fiamsm/, P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. vii., p. 410.) , 



