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I am indebted to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington for three eggs of this Wader, 

 taken by Mr. R. R. MacFarlane near Anderson River Fort in July. Two of these eggs have 

 the ground-colour dark clay-ochre, and are marked with a few underlying pale purplish-grey 

 shell-blotches, and with black surface spots and blotches, which are larger and more numerous 

 at the large end, and resemble eggs of Totanus stagnatilis in my collection, but are larger. The 

 third egg is lighter in ground-colour, and is a miniature Greenshank's egg in general 

 appearance. In size they vary from T75 by 1T5 inch to 1-63 by Til inch. In the label from 

 Mr. MacFarlane received with the two former eggs, it states that the nest was a mere depression 

 in the soil lined with decayed leaves. The egg was figured for the first time, I believe, in 1867 

 (P. Z. S. 1867, pi. xv. fig. 5), and illustrations of six specimens are given in Mr. Poynting's 

 excellent work on the eggs of the British Limicolae. 



The specimens figured are those described, and are in my own collection. That figured in 

 the foreground is in summer plumage, and that in the background is in autumn dress. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, ad. Near Egedesminde, N. Greenland, 1867 {Erichsen). b, ad. New Jersey, April (J. Krider). c, ? ad. 

 Wisconsin, April 20th, 1871 {Dr. T. M. Brewer), d, J. Massachusetts, August 22nd, 1870 (Dr. T. M. 

 Brewer), e. Washington, D.C., September 16th, 1861 {Dr. Elliott Coues). f. Koshkonong Lake, 

 May 2nd, 1871 {Dr. Brewer). 



E Mus. H. B. Tristram, 

 a, ad. Musquash, near St. John, New Brunswick, 1864 {H. E. Dresser). 



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