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APPENDIX. 
PRION TURTUR, Smith. 
Dove-like Prion. 
Gould, llandbk. Jids. Aunt., Vol. ii, sp. 641, p. 472 
Mr. Atkinson has forwarded two eggs of this bird for description 
together witli the following note :—“ The eggs of Prion turtur, 
which I send you were taken by Mr. G. H. Ilinsby of Hobart, 
from oil the Friar s Rocks at the extreme south of South Bruny 
Island on the South-east coast of Tasmania, on the 10th and 11th 
of December 1887. There was a colony of these birds at an 
elevation of about one hundred feet up the side of the steep little 
island. The burrows were from one foot to two feet lon<r in the 
soft earth, and just large enough for one to pass the hand into, 
and had a chamber at the end about eight inches in diameter, 
where the single egg laid by this bird for a sitting was deposited. 
Several of the birds were brought alive to Hobart, identified and 
then set at liberty.’’ 
One egg (A) is in form a slightly lengthened oval ; the other 
(B) is an ellipse in form, compressed slightly in the centre. The 
eggs are white, the texture of the shell being fine and lustreless, 
and have that musky odour peculiar to the eggs of the Procdlaridtc. 
Length (A) 1-81 x U28 inch ; (B) D8 x 1-26 inch. 
I lab. Wide Bay District, New South Wales, Victoria and South 
Australia, Tasmania, West and South-west Australia. (7 lamsay.) 
