irregular in its time of breeding ; the natives told me in the 

 beginning of June that it would be quite useless to attempt 

 seeking for their eggs, and that they would not begin to lay 

 for some weeks. Of those that were brought me on the 

 5th of June, some were quite fresh, whilst others had live 

 young ones in them ; the same thing exactly occurred on the 

 19th of the same month. 



In the notice accompanying the drawing of the egg of the 

 Stormy Petrel in a former number, I omitted to notice a very 

 interesting variety which I had not then seen, having only 

 examined three or four specimens, but have since received a 

 box of them from Shetland, containing two very beautifully 

 marked round the larger end with very minute dots of red 

 and purple, forming a clear though faintly marked zone. 



