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Mr. A. J. North, F.L.S., exhibited a series of the eggs of the 

 following birds : — Anoxic stolidus, Linn. ; A. nielanogenys, G. R. 

 Gray; A. cinereus, Gould; Sterna /uIigi)iosa, Gme\. ; Gygis Can- 

 dida, Gruel. ; Pliaeton rubricauda, Bodd. ; Ptiffinus sphenurus, 

 Gould ; P. assimilis, Gould ; Sula persotiata, Gould. For these 

 eggs Mr. North stated that he was indebted to our energetic 

 member, Dr. P. H. Metcalfe, who collected them on Nepean, 

 Philip, and Norfolk Islands, and by whom also they had been 

 fully described in a most interesting and exhaustive paper contri- 

 buted to the "Ibis" for 1885 (Vol. Ill, Fifth Series). 



