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PRION TURTUB, Smith. 

 Dove-like Prion. 

 Qould, Uandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii , sp. 641, p. 472 



Mr, Atkinson has forwarded two eggs of this bird for description 

 together with the following note : — " The eggs of Prion turtur, 

 which I send you were taken by Mr. (3. H. Hiiisby of Hobart, 

 from off the Friar's Rocks at the extreme south of South Bruny 

 Island on the South-east coast of Tasmania, on the 10th and 11th 

 of December 1887. There was a colony of these birds at an 

 elevation of about one hundred feet up the side of the steep little 

 island. The burrows were from one foot to two feet long in the 

 soft earth, and just large enough, for one to pass the hand into, 

 and had a chamber at the end about eight inches in diameter, 

 where the single egg laid by tliis bird for a sitting was deposited. 

 Several of the birds were brought; alive to Hobart, identified and 

 then set at liberty.'' 



One egg (A) is in form a slightly lengthened oval ; the other 

 (B) is an ellipse in form, compressed slightly in the centre. The 

 eggs are white, the texture of the shell being fine and lustreless, 

 and have that musky odour peculiar to the eggs of the Procellaridce. 

 Length (A) 1-81 x 1-28 inch ; (B) 1-8 x 1-26 inch. 



Hah. Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Victoria and South 

 Australia, Tasmania, West and South-west'Australia. {Ramsay.) 



