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The figure of the Egg on PI. III. is from a photograph kindly lent to 
me by Mr. Bidwell, the owner of the copyright. The egg is depicted 
of the natural size. 
EGG III. (Sale number ten.) 
Sale catalogue No. 8937. An egg of the Great Auk, 
on February 22nd, 1894. 
Described in the catalogue as from “a Collection of Eggs the property 
of Baron d’Hamonville, which includes a very fine egg of the 
Great Auk,” 
Egg III. - u Lot 112. GREAT AUK, formerly in the 
collection of the late William Yarrell, 
Y.P.L.S., F.Z.S. etc., after whose decease 
it was purchased in 1856, by the late 
Frederick Bond, F.Z.S., etc., who sold it 
to the present owner. It was figured in 
'"'Hewitson’s British Oology.” 
Bought by Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, Bart., 
of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, for £315 O O 
The record price up to this time given for an egg of the Great Auk. 
Mr, Frederick Bond gave £21 for this egg, at an auction in 
these rooms, on December 5th. 1856 -rf. p. 7—and sold it afterwards 
to Baron Louis d’Hamonville, of Manonville, Meufthe-et-Moselle, ixi 
France. It-thus became one of the four eggs which were at one time 
in the Baron’s collection, all of which eventually came “ under the 
hammer” at Stevens’, 
An account of these four eggs is given by Baron d’Hamonville in 
an article entitled “Note sur les quatre cent's cl’AIca impennis, 
appartenant a notre Collection Oologique,” which appeared in the 
“ Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France,” for 1888, pp.. 101- 104. 
Concerning the egg just sold, the Baron writes as follows “ Cet oeuf 
provient de M. Yarrel [sic] chez lequel nous l’avons vu en 1851. En 
nous le montrant. M. Yarrel [sic] nous dit avec une certaine fierte : 
• C'est un oeuf anglais.’ ce qui nous fit presumer qu’il avait ete capture 
aux Orcades ou aux Hebrides. Apres la mort de son proprietaire, il fut 
vendu en 1856 a M. Bond, qui nous l’a cede avec sa collection en 1875.” 
A coloured picture of the egg is shown on pi. V., figure A, in the 
Society’s Memoirs. 
About the other three eggs in his collection—which I have already 
stated also came for sale at these rooms—Baron d’Hamonville further 
remarks, “ 11 y a environ 40 a 50 ans que M, de Barace a aquis ses 
trois oeufs de Pingouin brachyptere. Nous pensons qu’ils doivent 
•British Oology, by William C. Hewitson (lSSl-SSy Vol. II., pi. CXI.V. 
