ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
We are indebted to Mr. Gould for the drawing of the eggs of 
Phaethon phamicurus , Fig. 3 ; they were procured from Norfolk 
Island, east coast of Australia, and from Raine’s Islet, in Torres 
Straits. He states, that August and September are its breeding 
months, the season when the two previously mentioned species 
leave their breeding quarters. Mr. Gould did not see these tropic 
birds breeding, but quotes Mr. Macgillivray’s account of their nidi- 
fication on Raine’s Islet : “ Upon one occasion, three were observed 
performing sweeping flights over and about the island, and soon 
afterwards one of them alighted ; keeping my eye upon the spot, 
I ran up and found a male bird in a hole under the low shelving 
margin of the island bordering the beach, and succeeded in captur- 
ing it after a . short scuffle, during which it snapped at me with its 
beak, and uttered a low harsh and oft repeated croak. It makes 
no nest, but deposits its two eggs on the bare floor of the hole, and 
both sexes assist in the task of incubation. It usually returns 
from sea about noon, soaring high in the air, and wheeling round 
in circles before alighting. The eggs are blotched and speckled 
with brownish-red. on a pale reddish-gray ground, and are 2.3 long 
by i broad.” 
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