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which, however, after brooding them for eighteen days, left them, when they 
were found to contain almost full-grown embryos. The other eggs were, 
unfortunately, injured by Parrakeets in the aviary, and so rendered useless. 
In the beginning of July this hen bird began to lay again, and in eight days 
five eggs were produced, and a sixth at the end of the month. Two of them 
were destroyed, as before, by the Parrakeets, but three were placed under a 
Bantam hen, and at the end of twenty-three days a young bird was hatched. 
The foster-mother then left the nest, and the other two eggs, both of them 
fertile, came to nothing, while she trod upon the chick so that it died the 
next day, when its remains were sent to the Museum at Copenhagen. In 
October, Herr Christensen was so kind as to bring to England and send to ie 
the only remaining one of the eggs which he had to spare, and this, though 
broken, I regard as a valuable specimen, It is more highly coloured than 
any of the others I have, but very sensibly smaller. | 
PTEROCLES ALCHATA (Linnzeus). 
§ 2874. Three-—Harakta, Algeria, 10 June, 1857. From 
Mr. Salvin. 
[ Mr. Salvin’s notes on the breeding of this species are printed in ‘ The Ibis’ 
for 1859 (p. 352). | 
§ 2875: Three.—Plain of Roumila, Algeria, 10 June, 1857. 
From Mr. Simpsen. 
From one nest. 
§ 2876. Three.—Alegeria, 1857. From Mr. Tristram. 
[The Canon’s notes on this species in Northern Africa were published in 
‘The Ibis’ for 18C0 (pp. 70, 71). | 
[§ 2877. Three—Tahar, Algeria, 4 or 5 June, 1857, From 
Mr. Salvin. 
From one nest. | 
[§ 2878. Three—Harakta, 10 June, 1857. From Mr. 
Tristram. 
A complete nest. | 
