160 



Laid in coniineiuent (Zool. Gardens, Zoological Society. 



Loudon). 

 Lower -Egypt (.S'. Stafford Allen). Seebohm Coll. 



Laid in continemeut ( Kuowsley Crowley Bequest. 



Park, l.,anca.?hire : Gould Coll.). 



Alopochen jubatus {Spiv). 



Chenalopex jubata, Set. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 499. 



Chenalopex jubatus, Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. .M. xxvii. p. 169 (189-3). 



Alopoch en jubatus, Sharpe, Hatid-l. i. p. 215 (1899). 



The eggs of the Orinoco Goose are of an oval shape, slightly 

 glossy, and of a pale brownish cream-colour. Three examples 

 measure respectively : 2*4 by I'l'I ; 'I-'i'-i by 1"77 ; 2'3S by 1-63. 



2. Laid in enutinemeut, April (Zool. Zoological Society. 



GaKlens, London). 

 1. Laidinconiinement (Zool. Gardens, Zoological Society. 



London). 



Genus TADORNA, Fhml.n,/. 



Tadorna tadorna (Lina.). 



Anas tadorna, Thivn. Foiipjla/iz. yts. Tog. tab. Ixxx. tig. 11 (1845—54). 

 Tadorna vulpanser, Baedeker, Eivr Eur. 7 oy. tab. 68. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 



Hewitson, E(/;/s of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 397, pi. cxii. fig. i (1856). 

 radorna cornuta, Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 451 (1878) ; Hume ^- Marsh. 



Game Birds Lid. iii. p. 135 (1880) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 520. 



pi. 66 (1885); Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 171 (1895); 



Seebohm, E(i<js of Brit. Birds, p. 36, pi. 16. tig. 6 (1896): Bhnif. 



Fauna Brit. Iml., Birds, iv. p. 427 (1898). 

 Tadorna tadorna, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 215 (1899). 



The eggs of the Common Sheld-Duck are of an oval form, but a 

 few specimens are bluntly biconical. Some are fairly glossy ; others 

 are entirely without gloss. They are creamy white, and measure 

 from 2'45 to 2'75 in length, and from 19 to 2 in breadth. 



3. Hoy, Orkneys, 4tli June (C. Doyi- Seebohm Coll. 



caster). 



1. Warnham Bav, Northumberland, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



21st Jiuie. 



4. C\imhei\iinA (Heyshiim). Gould Coll. 



9. Rockcliffe, Carlisle, 7th June. Crowley Bequest. 



2. The Warien, Carnarvon, May Seebohm Coll. 



(Harc/itt Coll.). 

 U. Barmouth, N. Wales, 17th May. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Poole Harbour. Dorset, 9tli .luly. R. Kirkpatrick, Esq. [P.]. 

 12. Smolen Islands, N. Norwav, Mr. A. Rosbach [P.]. 



31st May. 

 2. Island of SyU, Frisian 1., 2nd .lime. H. Dumford, Esq. [P.I. 

 2. Island of Sylt, 31st May (A. 11'. Seebohm Coll. 

 Johnson). 



