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Channel, South-east Tasmania, by Mr. J. Graves. They were laid 
just above high water mark, and like our other Terns in a slight 
hollow in the bare ground. The eggs are two for a sitting, and 
large numbers of these birds were nesting close together in the 
same locality.” The eggs are lengthened ovals slightly pointed 
at the smaller end, and are of a stone-grey ground colour, one 
specimen (A) being thickly covered all over with rounded dots 
and spots of different shades of olive-brown and dark umber, 
obsolete markings of the same colour appearing as if beneath the 
surface of the shell; the other specimen (B) is irregularly blotched 
and streaked with short wavy markings of the same colour, 
becoming confluent in some places towards the larger end, all the 
markings being larger than on the previous specimen, but not so 
thickly dispersed over the surface of the shell. Length (A) l - 83 
x 1-3 inch; (B) 2 x 1-34 inch. Another specimen is smaller, and 
is of a light coffee-brown, with irregular shaped spots of rich 
umber-brown scattered over the surface of the shell; a few large 
blotches and fine streaks, together with obsolete markings of the 
same colour appear towards the larger end. Length 175 x 
1 *23 inch. 
Jlab. Derby, N. W. Australia, Port Darwin, Port Essington, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania. (Ramsay.) 
STERNULA NEREIS, Gould. 
Fairy Tern. 
Gould, Handbh. lids. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 607, p. 402. 
An egg of this species taken by Mr. E. D. Atkinson on 14th 
November, 1889, from a slight hollow in a loose shelly sand bank 
near the shore of Mosquito Sound, Walker’s Island, in Bass’s 
Straits, is similar to that of the following species, S. sinensis, but is 
slightly larger. It is a swollen oval in form, somewhat sharply 
pointed at the smaller end, of a pale stone-grey ground colour, 
