EGG XX. (Sale number nineteen.) 
A Great Auk’s egg, on October 29th, 1901. 
Sale catalogue No. 10,422. 
Egg XX. - “ Lot 235. A splendid specimen of the Great 
Auk’s egg, being the last of four belonging 
to the late Baron d’Hamonville.” 
Bought by Mr. Herbert Massey, of Ivy Lea. 
Burnage, Didsbury, Cheshire, for £252 O O 
Mr. Edward Bidwell exhibited this egg at the meeting of the 
British Ornithologist's Club on 13th February, 1901. The Bulletin of 
the Club, No. LXXVII., p. 49, states that “Mr. E. Bidwell exhibited, 
on behalf of Mr. Henry Stevens, an egg of the Great Auk 
(Plautus impennis ),” and gives the following history of the 
specimen. ‘ This egg was in 1855 in the collection of M. le Baron 
Henri de Veze, who had purchased it of Parzudaki of Paris. In 
1858, it was sold, through the agency of Fairmaire of Paris, to 
M. le Comte Raoul de Barace, of Angers, and after his death it was 
purchased with the Barace collection in March, 1887, by M. le Baron 
Charles d’Hamonville, whose decease last year has again brought the 
egg into the market.’ ” 
MOUNTED SPECIMEN IV. and 
EGG XXI. 
(Sale number twenty.) 
A mounted specimen of the Great Auk, and also an egg of the bird, on 
April 17th, 1902. Sale catalogue No. 10,502. 
Bird IV. - “Lot C. Fine specimen of the Great Auk, 
under glass shade.” 
Bought by Mr. J. B. Nichols, of Parliament Mansions, 
Victoria Street, London, for £315 O O 
The bird was from the collection of the late Mr. Robert Champley, 
of Scarborough. Mr. Symington Grieve (‘'Great Auk or Garefowl,” 
App. pp. 21-22) states that “Professor Newton wrote to Blasius 
a short while ago as follows:—‘ Mr. Champley has only a 
single skin of Alca impennis. It was bought along with an egg, 
direct from Mecklenburg (as I think in 18(50). I have good reason 
for believing that both skin and egg came originally from Iceland.’ ” 
Egg XXI, - “ Lot I). An egg of the Great Auk.” 
Bought by Mr. William Stirling, of Fairburn, 
Muir-of-Ord, N.B., for £252 O O 
The egg like the bird was from the collection of the late Mr. 
Robert Champley, of Scarborough. 
