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The eggs of the American Great White Heron in the Collection 

 measure respectively : 2-63 by 1-8 ; 2-45 by 1*78 ; 2-55 by 1-85 ; 

 2-5 by 1/85 ; 2-44 by 1*85. A remarkably small specimen measures 

 2-18 by 1-62. 



1. Florida (Atidubon : Tristram Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Marquesas Keys, Florida, 10th Jan. Seebohm Coll, 



1. Little Spanish Keys, Florida, 19th Seebohm Coll. 

 Jan. 



1. Johnston Keys, Florida, 2nd Jan. Seebohm Coll. 



2. Johnston Keys, 2nd Feb. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MESOPHOYX, Sharpe. 



Mesophoyx intermedia ( Wayl.}. 



Ardea intermedia, Layard, Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. 2nd ser. xiv. p. Ill 



(1854). 

 Herodias intermedia, Legye, Birds Ceylon, p. 1141 (1880) ; Oates ed. 



Hume, Nests $ Egg's 'ind. B. iii. p. 240 (1890). 

 Mesophoyx intermedia, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 85 (1898) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 195 (1899). 



The eggs of the Lesser Egret measure from 1-72 to 2'05 in length, 

 -and from 1'26 to 1*5 in breadth. 



1. Etawali, N.W. Prov., India, 10th Hume Coll. 

 Aug. (A. O. H.}. 



1. Etawah, 14th Aug. (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 

 9. Etawah, 24th Aug. (A. O. H.). Hu ne Coll. 

 3. Etawah, 26th Aug. (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



15. Etawah, 27th Aug. (A. O. H.}. Hume Coll. 



2. Loyah Bridge, Etawah, 13th Aug. Seebohm Coll. 



(W. E. Brooks). 



2. Utchulda, Etawah, 13th Aug. Seebohm Coll. 



( W. E. B.}. 



1. Chunar, 4th July ( W. E. B.). Hume Coll. 



3. Mirzapur, 9th July ( W. E. B.). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Allahabad, 23rd July. Hume Coll. 

 9. Raipur. Hume Coll. 



1 . Ceylon (E. L. Layard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Ceylon. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



Mesophoyx plumifera (Gould). 



Herodias egrettoides. Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 303 (1865) ; 



Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 341 ; Campbell, Nests & Eggs Austr. Birds. 



p. 58 (1883). 

 Mesophoyx plumifera, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 87 (1898) ; id 



Hand-l. i. p. 195 (1899). 



The three eggs of the Plumed Egret in the Collection measure 

 respectively : 1-8 by 1-35 ; 1-88 by 1-33 ; 1-75 by 13-9. 



3. North Australia. Gould Coll. 



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