158 PROFESSOR NEWTON ON SPOONBILL BREEDING IN NORFOLK. 
The egg which Sir F. Boileau brought home, and presented to 
the Norwich Museum, measures 1 To x P23, and is here figured to 
show the size and exact shape. There is no need to colour the cut, 
as, like all Owls’ eggs, it is pure white, and is about the size 
one might expect from such a bird as Scelocjlaux. 
EARLY NOTICE OF SPOONBILL BREEDING 
IN NORFOLK. 
By Professor- Alfred Newton, F.R.S. 
Read 27th January, 1S96. 
A few weeks since, my friend Mr. John E. Foster, of Trinity 
College, kindly drew my attention to a passage in the lately 
published Patent Rolls of King Edward I." (p. 546) as follows : — 
* Calendar of Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. 
Prepared under the superintendence of the Deputy Keeper of the Records. 
Edward I. A. I). 1292 — 1301. London : 1895. 
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