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EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



[. Sliaw's Kiwi (Apleryr (lustrulis), frmu a mounted specimen exhiliiled in tlie 

 Gallery ; showing- the r.ilatively enormous size of the egg laid by this 

 New Zealand bird. 



II. /•'///. 1. ,\ photograph of the Plate in Strickland and Melville's ' l)odo and it 

 Kindred,' which is a facsimile of Savery's picture of the Dodo in the Iloyal 

 Gallery at Berlin. 

 Fiij. 2. The ne.arly complete skeleton exhibited in tlie (ialli'ry, found in 18G.') 

 by Mr. George Clarke in the black alluvial soil at " La Mare aux Souges'' 

 near MahiSbourg, Mauritius. It was described and tigured by !Sir Itichard 

 Owen in the Transactiims of the Zoological Society, vi. p. 49. 



A dried right-foot, exhibited in the (iallery; received by tin- I'.ritisli 

 Museum in 1781. 



III. Group of Xew Zealand Penguins, taken from specimens exhibited in tlie 



Gallery'. 



IV. A pair of Putlins (Fratercula nrcfica) feeding their young one, talien from 



Group no. 07. illustrating tin' Nesting-Series of British Birds. 



V. Great Auk {I'/diitus iiiij/enni.f), fmm the specimen exhibited in the Gallery, 

 which was procured at Labradiu' and once formed part i if the Lidth de 

 .Teude OoUection. 



YI. A pair of Kentish Plovers {.lu/idlitin (ih-.iaiHh-Din) and two nests containing 

 respectively three young birds and three eggs, from Group no. Ill' 

 illustrating the Nesting-Series of Hritish Birds. 



VII. A pair of Herring Gulls (I,iinis ctri/entatus) with their nest and eggs, taken 

 from Group no. ll'I illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 



\'III. Sandwich Terns [Sterna catitiaca) with their nests and eggs suriouuded by 

 plants of sea-campion and sorrel. Taken from (iroup no. ISfi, illustrating 

 the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 



I.K. Great Bustards (Oth tanhi). Taken frum the Group exhibited in one of the 

 centre cases in the Gallery. The right-hand figure (c) shows the male in 

 courting attitude. The birds yvere mounted by Mr. G. I'ickhardt and are 

 admirably represented. 



X. A pair of Hoatzins (Opisthocomns honzhi) with their nest and eggs, exhibited 

 in one of the centre cases. 



