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APPENDIX. 
NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS, 
FOUND BREEDING ON 
LORD HOWE AND NORFOLK ISLANDS. 
Our knowledge of the nesting and eggs of the Lord Howe Island 
birds is still very limited, and until an excursion fitted out by the 
Trustees of the Australian Museum in September 1887, very little 
had been done towards recording authentic information relative 
to the breeding season, or the eggs of the birds found there. Of 
the sixty species recorded in Dr. Ramsay’s “ List of Birds found 
on Lord Howe Island,” only eleven are strictly peculiar, and of 
only one of these, is the nest and eggs known ; much remains 
therefore to bo done, and it is to be hoped that any one favorably 
situated for acquiring further information will not fail to make 
notes on this interesting subject.* 
HALCYON YAGANS, Lesson. 
(II. norfolkiensis, Tristram.) 
New Zealand Kingfisher. 
Buller, Bds. New Zealand, p. 69. 
Mr. E. II. Saunders, who has lately returned from Lord Howe 
Island, states that lie found this bird breeding freely during the 
month of November 1887, in the hollow limbs of trees. The eggs, 
five in number for a sitting, are rounded in form, and of a beautiful 
pearly-white tint. The dimensions of a set are as follows :—length 
(A) 1T4 x 0-92 inch (this specimen is somewhat sharply pointed 
at one end); (B) L08 x 0'91 inch ; (C) 1T2 x 091 inch ; (D)L1 
x 09 inch; (E) 1'08 x 0-92 inch. 
Hub. Lord Howe, and Norfolk Islands, New Zealand. 
* Lord Howe Island Report, p. 45, (Oology ; North.) 
