This egg was depicted as fig. B, PI. VI,, in Baron d’Hamouville's 
‘•Note sur les quatre cents d'Afca impennis appartenant a notre 
Collection Oologiqbe,” (Memoires Soc. Zool. de France, 1888, pp. 101— 
104), and the following remarks on the egg were given by the Baron in 
his Addition a mie note sur les quatres cents du Pingouin braohyptere” 
(Memoires Soc. Zool. de France, 1891, p. 05). “Blanche VI., figure 
B. Cet cent provient, comme les deux suivants de la collection du 
feu Raoul de Barace. II porte, presque an sommet du gros pole 
une bande transversale, ay ant environ six millimetres de largeur, 
de couleur roux pale, et presque circulaire. En raison de cette 
regularity et de sa nuance rouille, je croyais tout d'abord que cette 
tache etait accidentelle; aussi, l’ai-je omise sur la planche : mais M. 
Edward Bidwel [sic], specialiste experiments, qui est venu d’Angleterre 
en Lorraine, expres, pour visiter mes collections, pense, an contraire, 
qu’elle est naturelle, et quelques essais tentes avec des reactifs m'ont 
prouve qu’il doit avoir raison. Jesignale done cette omission dans la 
planche qui, pour tout le reste, est absolument exacte. Ce specimen, 
et celui designe sur lalettre C viennent dTslande, comme M. de Barace 
nous 1'appreiid dans une lettre adressee par lui, le 13 janvier. 1867, a M. 
Rowley, on il lui dit les avoir reyus. plus de trente ans auparavant (soit 
vers 1834 on 1835), d'un armateur qui habitait Saint-Malo. Dans mon 
premier article, j’ai dit que ]’avals lieu de croire que e’etait M. Hardy, 
armateur de peche a Dieppe, et ornithologue distingue, qui devait avoir 
fourni ces ceufs a M. de Barace : mais comme il m’a ete impossible 
de m’assurer si M. Hardy avait ete, dans sa jeunesse, armateur a 
St.-Malo avant de l’etre a Dieppe, ce point, sans grand importance 
d'ailleurs, ne pent etre exactement elucide.” 
Translation. “Addition to my note on the four eggs of the 
Great Auk in my collection which appeared in the Bulletin of the 
Zoological Society of France for 1888, cf. the Society’s Bulletin for 
1891, p. 35.” 
“ Plate VI. figure B. This egg came as did the next two [depicted 
as figures C. and £>.] from the collection of the late Raoul de Barace. 
It has on the larger end a transverse band, nearly six millimetres in 
breadth, and of a pale red-brown colour and almost circular. 
On account of this regularity and its rust - coloured look, I 
thought at first that the mark might be accidental, so I omitted 
putting it in the figure; Mr. Bidwell, however, who has special 
knowledge of such matters, and who came from England to 
Lorraine, on purpose to see my collection, thinks that it is 
natural. I therefore beg to notify this omission in the figure of it on 
the plate, [VI. fig. B.], the markings, however, on the rest of the egg 
are absolutely correct. This specimen and the one marked C, [oil 
the same plate] came from Iceland, as M. de Barace informs us, in a 
letter written by him 13tli January, 1867, to Mr. Rowley, in which he 
says he received them more than thirty years ago (1834 or 1835), from a 
shipowner of St. Malo. In my first article [Bull. French Zool. Soc. 
1888] I said that I had reason to believe that it was M. Hardy, owner of 
a fishing vessel at Dieppe, and a well-known ornithologist, who had 
furnished M. de Barace with these eggs, but I cannot be sure if M. 
Hardy had been in his younger days a shipowner at St. Malo before 
going to Dieppe, this is of little consequence, and the matter cannot be 
decided with any certainty.” 
I have been informed by Mr. Bidwell. that the above remarks by 
the Baron d’Hamonville with regard to the transverse band are not 
quite correct. 
