164: ALCID^. 



3. Falkland Islands (C. C. Abbott). Gould Coll. 



3. Falkland Islands (C. C. A.). Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands {C. C. A.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3, Falkland Islands. Voy. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



Genus PH(EBETRIA, EelcJienh. 

 Phcebetria fuliginosa (Gm.). 



Diomedea fuliginosa, Lai/ard, Ibis, 1 867, p. 458 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, 

 Birds S. Africa, p. 773 (1875-1884): id. Phil. Trans. 168. p. 148 

 (1879) ; Saunders, t. c. p. 165 (1879) ; Bulkr, Birds New Zeal. 2Dd ed. 

 ii. p. 205 (1888). 



Phoebetria fuliginosa, Campbell, Nesfs 8^ Eggs Aiistr. Birds, p. 69 (1883) ; 

 Salvin, Cat. Birds B. M. xxv. p. 453 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. 

 p. 129 (1899) ; Hall, Ibis, 1900, p. 18. 



Of the four eggs of the Black Albatross in the Collection one is 

 unspotted white ; two are white, with a well-marked rufous cap at 

 the larger end and some minute rufous specks over the remainder 

 of the shell ; and one is of a buff colour, minutely spotted all over, 

 but more densely at the larger end than elsewhere, with yellowish 

 brown and rufous. They measure from 3'0 to 4*2 in length, and 

 from 2-4 to 2-7 in breadth. 



1. Island of Tristan d'Acunha. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Crozet Island (Capt. Armson). E. L. Layard, E-iq. [P.]. 



2. Kerguelen Island, 13th Dec. Iloyal Society [P.]. 



{A. E. Eaton). 



Order ALCIFORMES. 



The eggs of the birds of this Order vary much both in shape and 

 coloration. Some are white, but others can hardly be equalled for 

 richness and variety of colour by the eggs of any other birds. In 

 all cases they are very large and quite out of proportion to the size 

 of the bird. 



Family ALCID.E. 



Subfamily ALCIN^. 



Genus PLAUTUS, Brimnich. 



Plautus impennis (Linn.). 



Alca impennis, Thien. Fortpfanz. ges. Vog. tab. ivc. (1845-54); Baedeker, 

 Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 70. fig. .3 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. 

 Birds, ii. p. 469, pi. cxxix. (1856) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 563 

 (1880); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, m. p. 371, pis. 40 & 41 (1885); 

 Grieve, The Great Auk or Garefotvl, x>assi7n (1885) ; Seebohm, Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, p. 91, pis. 27, 28 (1806). 



Plautus impennis, Baird, Breiver ^- Ridqw., Water Birds N. Am. ii. 

 p. 467 (1884) ; Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 563 (1898) ; Sharpe, 



