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however, being a mellow whistle, which, when I approached the vicinity of where they appeared to he nesting, 
was uttered more loudly and with a sharp finish. In flight they resembled their larger relative. 
Nidification . — All my endeavours to find the nest of this species, by putting the bird off it, or by tracing 
it to the vicinity of its eggs, and then discovering them, were unsuccessful ; and I am of opinion that the birds 
for whose nests I searched had young concealed in the grass or among the stones. However, while taking the 
eggs of the Stilt and the Kentish Plover on the island mentioned in a former article, I discovered two nests 
containing eggs different to those of the latter, and which, in all probability, belong to the present species. 
There were no little Ringed Plovers on the island at the time I found the nests ; but they may have flown 
off when I approached, and might easily have passed unnoticed among the hundreds of Stilts, Kentish Plovers, 
and Little Terns which were thronging the air and the neighbouring shores in the usual state of excitement 
manifested when a large breeding-colony is invaded. The nests were situated in strips or deposits of flood- 
“ wreck,” in which little hollows were scraped, and lined with little pieces of dried grass, stick, &c. The 
eggs were three in number, of a brownish-olive or dusky clay-colour, marked round the larger end with a zone of 
irregular blackish spots and short streak-like marks, with which the rest of the surface is sparingly covered ; 
others were spotted openly throughout with regular-edged blotches of black, under which were spots of inky 
grev. In shape they are broad ovals, pointed at the small end, but not compressed, resembling, in fact, the 
eggs of the Kentish Plover in form. They vary in size from P17 to 1'15 inch in length by from 085 to 
0-84 in breadth. 
GR ALL^E. 
CHARADRIIM. 
Subfam. V ANELLIN JE . 
Bill formed as in the last subfamily, but slightly longer. Wings lengthened, as also the 
legs. Hind toe absent or present rudimentarily. 
A spur at the point of the wing in nearly all. Face ornamented with lappets in many. 
Sternum with two notches in each half, the outer wide and deep, the inner round and closed 
like a foramen. 
Genus CHETTUSIA. 
Bill moderate, straight, compressed ; the tip horny and elevated ; nostrils linear, in a long 
groove continued to the homy tip. Wings long, pointed ; the 1st or 2nd quill the longest; 
tertials lengthened; a rudimentary tubercle at the shoulder. Tail moderate, even, of 12 featheis. 
Legs long and tolerably robust. Tarsus covered with reticulated scales, and twice the length ot 
the middle toe ; outer toe connected at the base to the middle by a web ; hind toe and claw minute. 
