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Museum. It is a large egg, rather abnormally shaped and somewhat poor in 
marking. (Cf. W. Blasius, ut supra, pp. 154, 155.) | 
[There are also four other casts or models as follows :— 
(II. One—From an egg then in the possession of Herr R. 
(I. 
Oo 
Hiihnel, now in Mr. Rothschild’s Museum. 
Naumann, ‘Naturgeschichte der Vogel Mitteleuropas.’ Jubilee Ed. 
(W. Blasius) xii. Taf. 17 8, fig. 1. 
I believe it was for the original of this model that my brother Edward was 
in treaty in 1857, through Mr. Smurthwaite, then living in Leipzig, but 
unfortunately the negotiation came to nothing. However, I saw it there in 
the summer of 186], and obtained this copy, made of wood, but not badly 
painted, from the son of its owner—the father not being at home. As I 
understood that a well-known English collector, though one with whom I had 
no personal acquaintance, had made an oller for the egg, I, of course, refrained 
from any attempt to acquire it; but he did not buy it. About 1870 it was 
sold to Count Rédern at Breslau, and early in 1889 it passed into the possession 
of Mr. Rothschild, who was good enough shortly after to bring it and shew it 
to me. Hiibnel is said to have bought it of Schulz the dealer at Leipzig, who 
received it from Hamburg, on the death of a Senator of that city whose name 
is not known but whose collection he bought. It is supposed to have been 
obtained from Brandt (cf. pp. 365, 366) between 1835 and 1840, in which case 
it would doubtless be of Icelandic origin and would fall into the same category 
as that which Mr. Wolley bought of Mr. Bevan. It has been believed to be 
one of the specimens figured by Thienemann (Fortpflanz. gesammten Vogel, 
Tat. ive. fig. super.), but that I hold to be impossible on account of the different 
style of marking. It is, however, the subject of a figure in the last edition of 
Naumann’s work as above cited. (Cf. W. Blasius, Journ. fiir Orn. 1884, 
pp. 152, 153.) | 
Onue-—From the egg in the Grand Ducal Museum of 
Oldenburg, through Dr. Hartlaub, 1862. 
Naumann, wt supra, fig. 2. 
This solid plaster cast was kindly sent to me by Dr. Hartlaub, but by whom 
made and coloured I do not know, and though some care has evidently been 
taken with it, photographs of the egg taken by Mr. Edward Bidwell shew that 
the markings have not been very successfully copied. The history of the ege 
is not known with any certainty, but it is reasonably supposed to have come 
into the Museum in 1839 with the collection furmed by Graba of Kiel, author 
of ‘Reise nach Feré’ (Hamburg: 1830), in which case its Icelandic origin is 
more than likely. This also has been figured in the Jubilee Edition of 
Naumann’s great work, as above stated. (Cf. W. Blasius, aé supra, pp. 162, 
163 ) } 
