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This Megapode has been already recorded from the Banda 

 Islands.* In Australia its food consists of insects, fruit, &c. 

 (Broadbent) ; in the stomach of an example from Dobbo were fruits 

 only (C. Ribbe). The egg varies in colour from reddish brown to 

 pale buff or dull cream colour, and the long diameter of eggs of 

 average size is 3*2 in. to 4*0 in., and the short diameter 2*05 in. 

 to 2-2 in.f 



Ochthodromus geoffroyi, Wagl. (Greater Sand-Plover). 

 Charadrius geoffroyi, Wagler, Syst. Av. Charadrius, p. 61, 

 No. 19 (1827). 



South-eastern Europe, Africa to southern extremity, Mada- 

 gascar, Eodriguez, Palestine, Syria, Arabia, Central Asia, India, 

 Ceylon, Tenasserim, Cochin China, China, Japan, Formosa, 

 Hainan, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Flores, Solor, Babar Letti, Moloe, Buru, 

 Amboyna, Banda Islands, Ceram, Batchian, Gilolo, Mysol, New 

 Guinea, Negros, Panay, Leyte, Bohol, Palawan, Pelew Islands, 

 Ualan, North-west, North, and North-east Australia. 



The food of the Greater Sand-Plover consists of spawn, small 

 insects, &c. (Dresser). 



Ochthodromus mongolus, Pall. (Lesser Sand-Plover). 

 Charadrius mongolus, Pall., Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. App. 

 p. 700 (1776). 



Eastern Asia (Kamchatka, Dauria, Mongolia, Corea, Japan, 

 China, Hainan), Kurile Islands, Philippine Islands (Bohol), 

 Celebes, Banda Islands, Gilolo, Morty, Aru Islands, Ruk, Ad- 

 miralty Islands, Duke of York Island, Troughton Island, North 

 and North-east Australia. Accidental on Choris Peninsula, 

 Alaska. 



Troughton Island is off the north-west coast of Australia. 

 The Lesser Sand-Plover breeds in Eastern Siberia and on the 

 Commander Islands, and in Ladakh. Ridgway describes the 

 eggs as " pale dull olive, varying to buffy olive, rather sparsely 

 and irregularly speckled with dark brown and black."! They 

 measure about 1*43 in. by 1*05 in. 



:;: 'Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas,' viii. p. 57 (1880). 



f ' B. M. Cat. Birds' Eggs,' i. p. 17. 



I Ridgway, 'Manual N. A. Birds,' p. 179 (1837). 



