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APPENDIX. 



NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS, 



FOUND BEEEDING ON 



LORD HOWE AND NORFOLK ISLANDS. 



Our knowledge of the nesting and eggs of the Lord Howe Island 

 birds is still very limited, and until an excursion fitted out by the 

 Trustees of the Australian Museum in September 1 887, very little 

 had been done towards recording authentic information relative 

 to the breeding season, or the eggs of the birds found there. Of. 

 the sixty species recorded in Dr. Ramsay's " List of Birds found 

 on Lord Howe Island," only eleven are strictly peculiar, and of 

 only one of these, is the nest and eggs known ; much remains 

 therefore to be done, and it is to be hoped that any one favorably 

 situated for acquiring further information will not fail to make 

 notes on this interesting subject.* 



HALCYON VAGANS, Lesson. 

 (H. norfolkiensis, Tristram.) 

 Ne'w Zealand Kingfisher. 

 Buller, Bds. New Zealcmd, p. 69. 



Mr. E. H. Saunders, who has lately returned from Lord Howe 

 Island, states that he found this bird breeding freely during the 

 month of November 1887, in the hoUow limbs of trees. The eggs, 

 five in number for a sitting, are rounded in form, and of a beautiful 

 pearly-white tint. The dimensions of a set are as follows : — length 

 (A) 1-14 X 0'92 inch (this specimen is somewhat sharply pointed 

 at one end) ; (B) 1-08 x 0-91 inch ; (C) M2 x 0-91 inch ; (D) M 

 X 0-g inch ; (E) 1-08 x 0-92 inch. 



Hah. Lord Howe, and Norfolk Islands, New Zealand. 



* Lord Howe Island Report, p. 45, (Oologry j North.) 



