Auk, XIII, July, 1890, p. ZS~&. 
Discovery of the Eggs of the Belted Piping Plover. — As I am not 
aware that the nest and eggs of this species ( sEgialitis meloda circum- 
cincta ) have been previously recorded, perhaps the following notes will 
be of interest to oologists. 
Mr. Oliver Spanner of Toronto after reading ‘ Bird Nesting in North 
West Canada’ decided to make a trip to Lake Manitoba and while there 
secured eggs of this species. On June 19, 1895, he found a nest on Birch 
Island near the west shore of Lake Manitoba. The nest consisted of a 
depression in the sand lined with bits of drift weed, and contained three 
eggs which are similar to those of the common Piping Plover; the ground 
color is pale buff and they are finely spotted with black and purple gray, 
averaging in size 1.25 X i-OO. Both eggs and skin of the parent are now 
in my collection. Mr. Spanner also obtained young birds in the down 
at the same time, and as he saw several pairs of these Plovers, together 
with solitary Sandpipers, no doubt these were nesting in the vicinity. 
— -W. Raine, Toronto , Canada. 
