. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Michael Walters et al. 226 Bull. 2007 127(3) The eggs of the Canarian (or Meade-Waldo's) Black Oystercatcher Haematopus meadeivaldoi by Michael Walters, Douglas G. D. Russell, Frank D. Steinheimer & Christiane Quaisser Received 3 July 2006 Hockey (1996) stated that the eggs of the probably Extinct Haematopus meadewaldoi Bannerman, 1913, are undescribed and, by implication, unknown. Even in the most comprehensive work on avian eggs, the Handbuch der Oologie (Schonwetter & Meise 1962: 373, Meise 1988: 258-259), no such egg is mention
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Michael Walters et al. 226 Bull. 2007 127(3) The eggs of the Canarian (or Meade-Waldo's) Black Oystercatcher Haematopus meadeivaldoi by Michael Walters, Douglas G. D. Russell, Frank D. Steinheimer & Christiane Quaisser Received 3 July 2006 Hockey (1996) stated that the eggs of the probably Extinct Haematopus meadewaldoi Bannerman, 1913, are undescribed and, by implication, unknown. Even in the most comprehensive work on avian eggs, the Handbuch der Oologie (Schonwetter & Meise 1962: 373, Meise 1988: 258-259), no such egg is mentioned. In fact there is an egg, probably the only one, in the collection of Dr Wolfgang Makatsch (Fig. 1). It does not, of course, look any different from any other oystercatcher Haematopus egg. Oystercatcher eggs are oval to elliptical, pale yellowish stone to clay buff in colour, blotched, spotted and streaked brown and black. They are distinctive and unlike those of other waders, but the eggs of the different Haematopus are similar, except those of Magellanic Oystercatcher H. leucopodus, which appear consistently slightly darker in ground Figure 1. Egg of Haematopus meadewaldoi, (Christiane Quaisser) in the Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde, Dresden. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : British Ornithologists' Club
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