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Birds Eggs. 



Mr. J. C. Stevens will sell by auction at his rooms 38 King 

 Street, Covent Garden, London early in February 1856 some rare 

 eggs collected in Lapland by an English Gentleman in the past 

 season. Among them are eggs of Aquila fulva, — Falco gyrfalco — 

 Strix nisoria (Naum.) — Lusciola cyanecula orientalis , Schl. — 

 Anthus rufogularis — Parus sibiricus — Alauda alpestris — Frin- 

 gilla borealis — F. montifringilla — Pyrrhula enucleator — Gar- 

 rulus infaustus — Totanus fuscus — T. glareola — T. glottis — 

 Tringa temminckii — T. platyrhyncha (Limicola pygmaea, Naum.) — 

 Scolopax gallinula — Anser minutus , Naum. — Anas acuta — 

 A. penelope — A. fuligula — A. clangula — A. glacialis — 

 A. nigra — A. fusca — Eudytes arcticus — E. septentrionalis etc. 



Each egg was carefully marked at the time it was obtained, and 

 has also a reference to the private note-book in which particulars are 

 entered. — Catalogues with details may be had of Mr. Stevens, by 

 whom also enquiries or commissions will receive every attention. — 



