LIST OF PLATES. . 15 



Plate 56. 



Fulmar. 



Great Shearwater 

 (This figure is taken from Brewer's description of an egg collected 

 by the Moravians on an island off South Greenland). 

 Stormy Petrel. 

 Bulwer's Petrel 

 (Deserta Islands, Dr. Frere). 

 Fork-tailed Petrel 

 (Doon, St.-Kilda Group, June 10, 1884, Dixon). 

 Manx Shearwater. 

 Dusky Shearwater 

 (This figure is taken from Yarrell's description of an egg sent to 

 him with the bird by Mr. E. Vernon Harcourt, who obtained it on 

 the Deserta Islands. It represents the minimum size of eggs of this 

 species. An egg in the Salmon collection (now in the Museum of 

 the Linnean Society), collected by Hurrell in the same locahty, 

 measures 1"9 by 1*5 inch. The largest eggs of this species from 

 the Bahamas almost approach the small egg of the Manx Shearwater 

 figured on the same Plate). 



Plate 57. 



Mute Swan. 

 Hooper Swan. 



Plate 58. 



Bean-Goose. 

 Bewick's Swan 

 (Petchora, lat. 68°, June 1875, Harvie-Brown and Seebohm). 

 Grey-lag Goose. 



Plate 59. 



Common Eider. 

 King Eider 

 (Nova Zembla, July 12, 1870). 

 Steller's Eider 

 (This figure is copied from Middendorff's plate of an egg of this 

 Duck taken by him on the Taimur River, July 7, 1843). 



