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five, making a total of 160 guineas, at which figure he became 

 the purchaser." 



Scarborough. — The collection of the late Mr R. Champley 

 is still at the same address, 13 The Crescent, Scarborough, 

 where it is in the possession of his daughter, Miss Blanche E. 

 Champley. 



Stratford -on- Avon : Ettington Park, Mr S. E. Shirley. — 

 This egg is said to have been formerly in a large collection 

 of natural history specimens belonging to a Mr Shepherd of 

 Bristol, and, having been labelled as the egg of a penguin, 

 remained unnoticed for some eighty years. Writing me on 

 18th December 1896, Mr S. E. Shirley, says: "My egg has 

 been here many years, and is believed to have formed part of 

 a large collection of birds, eggs, heads, feet, &c, bought by 

 my grandfather early this century, but the catalogue of the 

 collection marked ' Catalogue of the Collection 6 of W. Shep- 

 herd, Bristol, 1807,' does not include the Great Auk egg; but 

 it is badly done, and other eggs are also omitted. The egg 

 is a very fine one, boldly and richly marked, and of good size, 

 quite perfect, with the exception that it is blown with a rather 

 large hole. I fear this is all I can tell you about it. It was 

 originally in a small cardboard case with a glass lid, and was 

 stuck to the back of the case in quite the primitive style of 

 egg-collectors." 



Tring, Herts : Museum of the Hon. TV. Rothschild. — The egg 

 in this collection was bought about March 1889 with the 

 collection of Count Eodern at Breslau. For further particulars 

 see ' The Great Auk : its History, Archaeology, and Eemains,' 

 pp. 89, 108, and App., p. 25. 



United States. 



Washington. — The egg No. 15,141 in the United States 

 National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, is figured in the 

 Report of the National Museum for 1888, Plate LXXIII. 

 The following note, from the pen of Mr Frederic A. Lucas, 

 appears opposite the plate : — 



The specimen measures 125 m.m. by 74 m.m. This egg was obtained 

 from the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., and was 

 originally in the collection of 0. des Murs. It is the egg figured on 



