CEDICNEMUS. 
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The nest of this bird, if worthy of the name of a nest, is often 
found with a single egg only. In the Dobroyde Collection there 
are twenty-four eggs, of these eight sets were found in pairs. 
Mr. K. H. Bennett usually found nests with one egg. Mr. Edward 
Lord Ramsay during 1887, found two nests at “ Kerriegundah,” 
near Louth, New South Wales, each of which contained but a 
single egg. During 1868, however, Mr. James Ramsay found no 
less than four nests containing two eggs each, at Nanama, New 
South Wales. Four averaged sized specimens measure as follows: 
length (A) 3'2x 2'2 inches; (B) 3-11 x 2-07 inches; (C) 3-25 x 2-22 
inches; (D) 3'18x 2-25 inches. Eggs of this bird are occasionally 
found of a pale sky-blue tint. 
llab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 
Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson 
River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 
Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South¬ 
west Australia. (Ramsay.') 
Family CHARADRIADiE. 
Genus (EDICNEMUS, Temminck. 
(EDICNEMUS GRALLARIUS, Latham. 
Southern-Stone Plover. 
Gould, Handbk. lids. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 496, p. 210. 
This bird is found over the greater portion of the continent of 
Australia. Its peculiarly mournful and dismal note, uttered at 
night time, has a most depressing effect on any belated traveller. 
The eggs, two in number, are deposited on the bare ground in 
open forest-lands. The eggs vary much in their markings, but 
the most usual variety are of a light stone colour, thickly 
blotched all over with irregular shaped markings of umber-brown; 
others are so closely marked as to nearly obscure the ground colour; 
