160 ANAT1D.E. 



1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gardens, Zoological Society. 



London). 



1. Lower Egypt (& Stafford Allen}. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Laid in confinement (Knowsley Crowley Bequest. 



Park, Lancashire: Gould Coll.). 



Alopochen jubatus (Spin). 



Chenalopex jubata, Sd. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 499. 



Chenalopex jubatus, Salvador i, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 169 (1895). 



Alopochen jubatus, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 215 (1899). 



The eggs of the Orinoco Goose are of an oval shape, slightly 

 glossy, and of a pale brownish cream-colour. Three examples 

 measure respectively : 2-4 by l'7i' ; 2-33 by 1*77 ; 2-38 by 1-63. 



2. Laid in confinement, April (Zool. Zoological Society. 



Gardens, London). 

 1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gardens, Zoological Society. 



London). 



Genus TADORNA, Fleming. 



Tadorna tadorna (Linn.). 



Anas tadorna, Thicn. Fortpjlanz. yes. Vb'g. tab. Ixxx. fig. 11 (1&45-54). 

 Tadorna vulpanser, Baedeker, Eicr Eur. Vog. tab. 68. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 



Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. . 397, pi. cxii. fig. i (1856). 

 Tadorna cornuta, Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 451 (1878) ; Hume fy Marsh. 



Game Birds Ind. iii. p. 135 (1880) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 520, 



pi. 66 (1885) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 171 (1895) ; 



Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 36, pi. 16. fig. 6 (1896); Slanf. 



Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, \\. p. 427 (1898). 

 Tadorna tadorna, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 215 (1899). 



The eggs of the Common Sheld-Duck are of an oval form, but a 

 few specimens are bluntly biconical. Some are fairly glossy ; others 

 are entirely without gloss. They are creamy white, and measure 

 from 2'45 to 2'75 in length, and from 1'9 to 2 in breadth. 



3. Hoy, Orkneys, 4th June (C. Don- Seebohm Coll. 



caster). 



1. Warnham Bay, Northumberland, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



21st June. 



4. Cumberland (Heysham). Gould Coll. 



9. Rockcliffe, Carlisle, 7th June. Crowley Bequest. 



2. The Warren, Carnarvon, May Seebohm Coll. 



(Hargitt Coll.). 



11. Barmouth, N. Wales, 17th May. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Poole Harbour, Dorset, 9th July. R. Kirkpatrick, Esq. [P.]. 



12. Smb'len Islands, N. Norway, Mr. A. Rosbach [P.]. 



31st May. 



2. Island of Sylt, Frisian I., 2nd June. H. Durnford, Esq. [P.]. 

 .2. Island of Sylt, 31st May (A. W. Seebohm Coll. 



Johnson). 



