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marshes of the Falklands, and as Captain Abbott has sent eggs of a 

 bird which he calls the Dottrel, I have little doubt that the follow- 

 ing description applies to the egg of this bird : — 



Ground-colour pale greenish-olive, conspicuously and strongly- 

 blotched and streaked all over with blackish brown ; 1-J inch long 

 by 1^- broad. 



LlMOSA HUDSONICA? 



H^matopus tjnicolor ? Black Oyster-catcher. 



A very large egg, the ground-colour of which is olive stone- colour, 

 blotched, spotted, and streaked with umber-brown, some of the 

 blotches being much larger than others, while some are of a more 

 olive hue, are obscure, and appear as if beneath the surface of the 

 shell, — the umber-brown hue prevailing at the larger end. Length 

 2\ inches; breadth \\. 



NYCTOCORAX AMERICANA. 



Egg uniform light greenish blue. Length 2 inches ; breadth 1-^. 

 Chloephaga magellanica (Gm.). 



This bird lays a beautifully-formed egg, of a uniform light buffy 

 cream-colour, 3 1 inches long by 2\ in breadth. 



Chloephaga poliocephala, Gray. 



Bernicla inornata, Gray & Mitch. Gen. B. pi. 165 (nec King). 



BERNICLA ANTARCTICA. 



The egg of this bird is of a lengthened elegant form, and of a light 

 buffy cream-colour, 2^- inches long by 1-J broad. 



QuERQUEDULA CRECCOIDES. 



A lengthened oval egg, of a uniform buffy stone-colour. Length 

 2\ inches ; breadth 1^-. 



QuERQUEDULA OERULEATA. 



Anas rqfflesi, King. 



Fine specimens were sent by Capt. Abbott. 

 Mareca chiloensis. 

 Anas? cristata. 



A handsomely-shaped, somewhat pointed egg, of a uniform vina- 

 ceous buff-colour. Length 2-J inches ; breadth 2. 



Micropterus cinereus. 

 Anas brachyptera, Lath. 



A rather long and elegantly-formed egg, of a uniform buffy stone- 

 colour. Length 3| inches ; breadth 2-J. 



