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Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



[Ibis, 



the finest eggs of the Black Guillemot ever shown, taken on 

 Fair Island, were also sent for exhiljition by Dr. Eagle Clarke. 



Lord Rothschild exhibited the following eggs from the 

 Trine: Museum : — 



9 varietiea. 



3 eggs. 



4 varieties. 

 28 varieties. 



1 dutch, Lower Petsliora. 

 4 varieties. 

 6 varieties. 

 3 eggs, Queensland. 



2 eggs, Gaboon. 

 1 egg, South Africa. 



1 chitch, Queensland. 



2 eggs, St. Helena 



2 eggs, Mengalum J., nr. Borneo. 



3 eggs, Chatham Islandfi. 

 2 varieties. 

 1 clutch, Lower Anderson River, 



collected by McFarlane. This Curlew, the Eskimo Curlew, is 

 now nearly extinct, but has still been obseived in 1913 and a 

 single specimen shot in 1915. 



Hcematopus ostralegus. 



,, palliatus. 

 CEdicnemiis cedicnemus oedicnemus 

 Vanellus vanellus. 

 ISquatarola squatarola. 

 Charadrius hiaticula. 



„ dubius cwonii'.us. 



,, riificapillus. 



,, paUidns. 



„ tricollavis. 



,, mekmops. 



„ sanct cn-helence . 



„ peroni. 



Th inornis novceseelandice. 

 Hecurvirostra avosetta. 

 Nnmenius borealis. 



Numenius arquata arquata. 



Tringa totanus totaniis. 



Limicola falcinellns falcinellus. 



Gullinago gallinago. 



Scolopax rmticola rusticola. 



Philoheia minor. 



Coenocorypha aiicklandica tristrann. 



„ ,, pnxilla. 



Thinocorus orbif/nj/aims. 

 C/u'cm's minor. 



„ crozeUoisis. 

 A n arhynvh us fron talis . 



1 variety. 

 lO varieties. 



S varieties. 

 10 varieties. 



5 varieties. 



1 clutch. 



1 egg, Antipodes Island. 



1 clutch, Chatham Islands. 

 4 eggs, Bolivia. 



2 eggs, South Ork'ney Islands. 

 2 eggs, Crozet Islands. 



1 f^gg, New Zealand. 



Mr. Robert H. RiiAD cxhibitetl a series of nests and eggs 

 of Waders, few of which have been found nesting in the 

 British IsleSj and nearly all taken by himself. 



From Norway. — Two nests and eggs of the Broad- billed 

 Sand|)ii)cr (Limicola falcinellus), taken on the margins of 



