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Condor {Pseudogryphus calif ornianus), the latter now very 

 rare, and fortunately strongly protected. He explained that 

 the eggs of the latter could easily be distinguished by their 

 greenish tinge. 



Lord Rothschild also exhibited two clutches of 4, one of 3, 

 and four of 2 eggs of Fa/co biarniicus erlangeri, from southern 

 Algeria and the western Sahara ; and one clutch of 3 of 

 Fatco pereyrinus pelegrinoides from Morocco, all fully iden- 

 tified, mostly by shooting one of the parent birds. The eggs 

 of these two Falcons seemed to be indistinguishable. 



Dr. Ernst Hartert, who had collected most of them, 

 made some remarks on their distribution and nesting. 



Mr. Thomas Parkin exhibited : — 



(fl) A splendid specimen of the egg of the Great Auk. 



(b) Two eggs of the Marsh Harrier, the last ever taken 

 on Whittlesea Mere. 



(c) An egg of tiie Waved Albatross {Diomedea irrorata), 

 taken 28 Nov. 1897 by the Webster-Harris expedition on 

 the Galapagos Is., and formerly in the Tring Museum. 



(d) Two eggs of the Lammergeycr or Bearded Vulture 

 (Gypa'etus barbatus), taken in Spain by Dr. A. C. Stark, 

 12 Jan. 1884'. They are figured (as perhaps the finest 

 and darkest clutch known) by Dresser in his 'Eggs of the 

 Birds of Europe.' 



(e) An egg of the Cape Pigeon (Daption capensis), taken 

 at the South Orkneys in December 1903 by the Scottish 

 National Antarctic Expedition, and presented to Mr. Parkin 

 by Dr. Bruce, the leader of the expedition. 



(/) An egg of the Norwegian Jer-Falcon {Hierofalco 

 gyrfalco), taken in West Finmark in 1856 by John Wolley. 



{g) A clutch of eggs of McCormick's Skua (Megaiestris 

 maccormicki) , taken on the slopes of Mount Erebus by 

 Scott's Antarctic Expedition in January 1914. 



Mr. Stuart Baker exhibited some cases of eggs of the 

 rarer Indian Falconidie, the majority of which had never 

 been previously exhibited in Europe. Amongst the eggs 

 shown were a fine series of those of Ictinaetus malayensis, 

 taken by Mr. J. Stuart in Travancore, and by Col. Rattray, 



