EUDROMIAS. 
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A set of four taken by Mr. James Ramsay at Tyndarie, measure 
as follows : — length (A) 1-G7 x 1 -22 inch ; (B) 1 '72 x 1 -23 inch ; 
(C) 1-75 x 1-25 inch ; (D) 1-58 x MS inch. 
Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West and South-west 
Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus EUDROMIAS, Doie. 
EUDROMIAS AUSTRALIS, Gould. 
Australian Dotterel. 
Gould, Handbk. Rds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 505, p. 227. 
“ The habitat of this species is the interior portion of the 
Province of South Australia, and the interior of New South Wales 
but as far as is yet known, it is nowhere plentiful; sometimes it 
is met with in the Melbourne markets during the game season, 
and is considered a rare bird by the dealers. Mr. E. G. Vickery 
has been fortunate enough to obtain the nest and eggs during a 
surveying trip in the Darling River District near Wilcannia. The 
eggs were placed on the ground among a few loose stones near the 
summit of a small hillock or “ rise ” in the level country, and 
placed on a little mound about two inches high, probably an old 
ant-hill; they were three in number, a pair measure as follows :—- 
length (A) L45 x 1-05 inch ; (B) 1-15 x 1-03 inch. In form they 
are rather less pointed than the usual pyriform shape of Plover’s 
e »S s j the ground colour is of a deep rich cream or buff, sparingly 
sprinkled all over with irregular spots, and some elongated crooked 
markings of chocolate black with a few minute dots and dashes 
of a lighter tint, the markings look black in certain lights, but of 
a chocolate tint in others. Specimens in Mr. Bennett's Collection 
were taken during the month of October, on the Lachlan River 
near Mossgiel.” ( Ramsay , R.L.S., ±V.S. W., Vol. vii., p. 410.) 
