40 
Specimens mounted or Skins. 
Ardea ralloides, Scop. 
Sqvacco Ilcron. 
1. Rudston Coll. 
Skeletons. 
Eggs. 
2. Pontefract, several years ago, Strick¬ 
land Coll. 
Genus Ardetta. 
' • • 
Clutch of 1, South Russia 
Ardetta minuta, (Linn.) 
Lit ile Bittern. 
Genus Nycticorax. 
Nycticorax griseus, (Linn.) 
HijJit Heron. 
* ' * 
Clutch of 5, Brandenburg 
Skin of immature bird, S. Russia, Sept. 
1875, (Scliliiter). 
Genus Botaurus. 
Botaurus stellaris, (Linn.) 
Bittern. 
... 
Clutch of 4, South Russia 
1 
i 
1 & 2. Adult male and female, Norfolk 
Coast, Jan. 1875. Presented by J. 
Backhouse. 
Family CXGONIXBiE. 
Genus Ciconia. 
... 
Clutch of 3, South Russia 
Ciconia alba, Bechst. 
Sclerotic 
Clutch of 3, Smyrna 
White Stork. 
Ciconia nigra, (Linn.) 
Black Stork. 
bones. 
1. Market Weighton, Oct. 1852. 
• • • 
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1 egg, Denmark 
la. Louth, Lincolnshire, June 1832. 
Family PLATALEXBiE. 
Genus Piatalea. 
Platalea leucorodia, Linn. 
Spoonbill. 
1. Adult male, killed by A. Savage on 
the Hornby Decoy, Bedale, 18G5. 
2. Female, Rudston Coll. 
• • • 
' 
Skin of young in down, Danube, 1885. 
Sclerotic 
2 eggs 
bones. 
1 
Case 
No. 
clxxxviii 
cxciii 
„ A 
cxciv 
