Amongst several sets of the eggs of Geronticus spinicollis and 
Threskiornis strictipennis , now before me, specimens of the eggs 
of each bird could be picked out that for shape, size, and colour 
it would he impossible to distinguish those of one species from 
the other. The eggs of Threskiornis strictipennis , vary in shape 
from oval to pointed ovals, and are of a very faint greenish-white 
on the outer surface and of a dark green tint on the inner surface 
when hold up against the light, the shell being minutely pitted all 
over, and lustreless. 
A set of two measures as follows :—(A) 2-57 x 1-82 inch ; (B) 
2-57 x 1-75 inch. Another set of three measure: (A) 2'5"> x 
1-76 inch ; (B) 2-58 x 1-77 inch ; (C) an elongate oval 2-G7 x 1-7 
inch. 
Jlab. The whole of Australia, except South-west. 
PELECAN OIDES URJNATR1X, Gmdin. 
The Diving Petrel. 
Gould , Handbk. lids. Anstr., Vol. ii., sp. G50, p. 483. 
John lieinhold Forster and his son George Forster, who accom¬ 
panied Captain Cook as naturalists during his second voyage in 
1772 made drawings of this bird to which the native name of 
Tee-tee was applied ; in Fo ster’s Voyage, Vol. i., p. 189, it is 
referred to as the little Diving Petrel, a name by which it was 
subsequently described under, by Dr. Latham in 1785.* Later 
on fGmelin inserted it in his Systema Natune, under the designa¬ 
tion of Pr ocellar ia uriuatrix, and in 1800 JLacepede substituted 
the generic term Pelecanoides for that of Procellaria, which is 
generally used by authors for this species at the present time. 
The Diving Petrel lias a most extensive range of habitat, and of 
no pelagic species found in the extreme southern seas, does so 
much doubt and ditl'erence of opinion exist amongst authors as to 
* Latham, Gen. Syn. Bds., Vol. iii., pt. 2, p. -113 (1785). 
f Gmelin, Systema Natural, I.,p. 500 (1788). 
I Lacepede, Mem. de l’lnst., p. 517 (1800). 
