in 
Zoologique de France in 1888, plate 6, 
tig. C, and additional notes on its history 
appeared in the Bulletin of the Societe in 
1891.” 
Bought by Messrs. Jay & Co., of Regent Street, 
London, for £173 5 O 
This is the famous egg marked with beautiful green blotches figured 
by Baron Louis d’Hamonville on plate VI.. fig. C, in the Memoirs of 
the Societe Zoologique de France in 1888. and of which he gives a fuller 
description in the Bulletin of the Society in 1891 (Seance du 27 janvier, 
1891), drawing attention to its pale green markings:—“ Les taches 
vertes, trop pen nombreuses au gre des amateurs, qui ornent ce 
specimen, sont tres rares surles oeufs du grand Pingouin.” [The green 
markings, seldom seen by Oologists, which adorn this specimen, are 
very rare on the eggs of the Great Auk.] 
This is one of the two Icelandic eggs once in the collection of the 
Count de Barace (as stated by him in a letter to Mr. Dawson Rowley, 
dated Jan. 13th, 1867). cf. also pp. 12, 13 and 21. 
y. J .£T, EGG XVI. (Sale number fourteen.) 
Sale catalogue No. 9283. An egg of the Great Auk, on April 20tli, 1896. 
Stated in the catalogue to be sold “ By order of the executors of the 
late James Hack Tuke, Esq., of Hitchin.” 
Egg XYI. - “ Lot A. An Egg of the Great Auk. This 
egg (with the exception of a small fracture 
on one side) is in splendid preservation, 
was purchased in 1841 from Hugh Reid, 
of Doncaster, who bought it on May 23rd 
of the same year from Frederick Schultz, 
of Dresden.” 
Bought by Mr. Heatley Noble, for Mr. William Newall, 
of 27 Hans Place, London, S.W., for £168 O O 
Concerning this egg, Mr. Symington Grieve (“Great Auk or 
Garefowl,” pp. 103-4) writes that it “ Belongs to a Mr. Tuke. Is of 
Icelandic origin. First mentioned by Hewitson in his *' Coloured 
Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds,’ ” and further gives a 
copy of a letter from Mr. Reid to Mr. Champlev, of Scarborough:— 
*Ed. 1846. Vol. II., p, 413, 
