EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



I. 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, 



II. Fig. 1, A photograph of the Plate in Strickland and Melville's 

 ' Dodo and its Kindred,' which is a facsimile of Savery's picture, 

 1626, of the Dodo in the Royal Gallery at Berlin. 

 Fig. 2. The nearly complete skeleton exhibited in the Gallery, found 

 in 1855 by Mi*. George Clarke in the black alluvial soil at 

 "La Mare aux Songes " near Mahebourg, 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 ] 781. 



III. Group of New Zealand Penguins, taken from specimens exhibited in 

 the Gallerj^ 



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 in the Museum 

 which was procured at Labrador and once formed part of the 

 Lidth de Jeude Collection. 



VI. A pair of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) with their nest and eggs, 

 taken from Group No. 124:, illustrating the Nesting-Series of 

 British Birds. 



VII. 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. 



VIII. A pair of Kentish Plovers {uiHgialltis alcvandrina) and two nests 

 containing respectively three young birds and three eggs, from 

 Group No. 112, illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds, 



IX, Great Bustards (Otis tarda). Taken from the Group exliibited in 

 one of the central cases in the Gallery. The right-hand figure (c) 

 shows the male in courting attitude. The birds were mounted by 

 Mr. G. Pickhardt and are admirably represented. 



