ORNITHOLOGY. 



PLATE XCVI. 

 THE EGG 



OF 



PSITTACUS ERITHACUS 

 THE ASH-COLOURED PARROT 



Some among the number of our subscribers who have kindly 

 favoured us with their ideas on various points connected with our 

 present undertaking, have expressed a wish to see the eggs of 

 foreign birds occasionally introduced to their consideration, this 

 interesting department of enquiry, as it is observed with truth, 

 being very little regarded by the generality of naturalists, and being 

 even of unusual occurrence in the works professedly written on the 

 subject of Ornithology. When the difficulty of obtaining authentic 

 information upon this subject be considered fully, this can scarcely 

 excite surprise, they are not to be obtained without the greatest 

 difficulty, nor is the information to be met with respecting them, 

 when procured, sufficiently precise on every occasion to deserve the 

 confidence of the ornithologist. Our collection of the eggs of 



