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found from time to time, which are supposed to belong to an extinct ostrich 

 or ostriches. The first came from the district of Cherson, S. Russia and was 

 named by Brandt as belonging to an extinct form, which he called S. cherso- 

 nen-sis. Another supposed to belong to the same form was found in 1894, 

 140 miles N. W. of Pekin. The remaining known egg, or rather fragments, was 

 found by the late Mr. Archibald Carlyle, of the Archtelogical Survey, in a Nullah 

 on the Kain R., Banda district, U. P., and bought by ^Ir. E. Bidwell at an auction 

 sale in London. These fragments were submitted to Dr. Andrews of the British 

 Museum, who considered them to be '' parts of an egg of a species of Stnithio 

 and that in the distribution of the pores on the surface of the shell they aie 

 almost identical mth the Somali ostrich Struthio molybdophanes although 

 possibly the shell is rather thicker than of any recent ostrich egg that has been 

 measured. When placing Dr. Andiews' examination on record in the " Ibis " 

 for 1920 Mr. Bidwell suggested that for the sake of reference the species be 

 called 8. indiciis.^' 



