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EXPLANATION OP PLATES, 



I. Shaw's Kiwi [Apteryx australis), from a mounted specimen exhibited in the 

 Gallery ; showing the ralativety enormous size of the egg laid by this 

 New Zealand bird. 



II. Fig. 1. A photograph of the Plate in Strickland and Melville's ' Dodo and it 

 Kindred,' which is a facsimile of Savery's picture of the Dodo in the Eoyal 

 Gallery at Berlin. 

 Fig. 2. The nearly complete skeleton exhibited in the GJallery, found in 186.5 

 by Mr. George Clarke in the black alluvial soil at " La Mare aux Songes " 

 near MahSbourg, Mauritius. It was described and figured by Sir Richard 

 Owen in the Transactions of the Zoological Society, vi. p. 49. 



A dried right-foot, exhibited in the Gallery ; received by the British 

 Museum in 1781. 



III. Group of New Zealand Penguins, taken from specimens exhibited in the 



Gallery. 



IV. A pair of Puffins (Fratercula arctica) feeding their young one, taken from 



Group no. 97, illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 



V. Great Auk (Plautus impennis), from the specimen exhibited in the Gallery, 

 which was procured at Labrador and once formed part of the Lidth de 

 .leude Collection. 



VI. A pair of Kentish Plovers {JEcjialitis alexandrina) and two nests containing 



respectively three young birds and three eggs, from Group no, 112 

 illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 



VII, A pair of Herring Gulls {Zwus argentatus) with their nest and eggs, taken 



from Group no. 124 illustrating the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 



VIII. Sandwich Terns (Sterna cantiaca) with their nests and eggs surrounded by 

 plants of sea-campion and sorrel. Taken from Group no. 126, illustrating 

 the Nesting-Series of British Birds. 



IX. Great Bustards [Otis tarda). Taken from the Group exhibited in one of the 

 centre cases in the Gallery, The right-hand figure (c) shows the male in 

 courting attitude. The birds were mounted by Mr. G. Pickhardt and are 

 admirably represented. 



X. A pair of Hoatzins (Opisthocomus hoazin) with their nest and eggs, exhibited 

 in one of the centre cases. 



