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The eggs of this bird may be found as early as the month of 

 August, and as late as the end of March ; October and the two 

 following months however, are the principal months to obtain them. 



Sab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 

 Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and 

 South- West Australia, South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 



Genus EEYTHKOGONYS, Gould. 



ERYTHROGONYS CINCTUS, Gould. 



Eed-kneed Dotterel. 



Gould, Sandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 513, p. 240. IZSL <^ 



"This species of upland plover breeds during October and 

 November, sometimes in December. It is a bird never as far as 

 I know, met with on the coast, but I have received specimens 

 from the Clarence, shot near Grafton. Its stronghold seems 

 to be the interior of New South Wales and South Australia. The 

 eggs are four for a sitting, placed in a slight depression on the 

 ground; Mr. Bennett informs me he found them in several instances 

 on the mud at the waters' edge of large inland lagoons and 

 lakes in the Lachlan district, and smeared over with mud as if the 

 birds had been shifting them from place to place, or perhaps they 

 were purposely smeared over to prevent them being detected. On 

 the whole they resemble those of JEgialitis nigrifrons, varying 

 from light to dark stone colour, thickly covered all over with 

 irregular angular and curved lines, and irregular shaped markings 

 of black, which cross and reoross each other in various directions, 

 the lines vary in thickness from that of a fine hair to that of coarse 

 thread, on the thicker end here and there they loop and form 

 tangles. Measurements of three from one nest : — (A) TIS x 0'85 

 inch ; (B) 1-15 x 0-85 inch; (C) 1-22 x 0-87 inch. From Mr. 

 Bennett's Coll." {Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol. vii., p. 412.) 



