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EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
L. Shaw’s Kiwi (Apteryx australis), from a mounted specimen exhibited in the 
Gallery ; showing the relatively enormous size of the egg laid by this 
New Zealand bird. 
Il. Fig. 1. A photograph of the Plate in Strickland and Melville’s ‘ Dodo and its 
Kindred,’ which is a facsimile of Savery’s picture of the Dodo in the Royal 
Gallery at Berlin. 
Fig. 2. The nearly complete skeleton exhibited in the Gallery, found in 1865 
by Mr. George Clarke in the black alluvial soil at “ La Mare aux Songes””’ 
pear Mahébourg, Mauritius. It was described and figured by Sir Richard 
Owen in the Transactions of the Zoological Society, vi. p. 49. 
A dried right-foot, exhibited in the Gallery; received by the British 
Museum in 1781. 
II. Group of New Zealand Penguins, taken from specimens exhibited in the 
Gallery. 
IV. A pair of Puffins (Fratercula arctica) feeding their young one, taken from 
Group no. 97, illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 
V. Great Auk (Plautus impennis), from the specimen exhibited in the Gallery, 
which was procured at Labrador and once formed part of the Lidth de 
Jeude Collection. 
VI. A pair of Kentish Plovers (Aigialitis alevandrina) and two nests containing 
respectively three young birds and three eggs, from Group no. 112 
illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 
VII. A pair of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) with their nest and eggs, taken 
from Group no. 124 illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 
VIE. Sandwich Terns (Sterna cantiaca) with their nests and eggs surrounded by 
plants of sea-campion and sorrel. ‘Taken from Group no. 126, illustrating 
the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 
IX. Great Bustards (Otis tarda). Taken from the Greup exhibited in one of the 
central cases in the Gallery. The right-hand figure (c) shows the male im 
courting attitude. The birds were mounted by Mr. G, Pickhardt and are 
admirably represented. 
X, A pair of Hoatzins (Opisthocomus hoazin) with their nest and eggs, exhibited 
in one of the central cases. 
