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Kilda," written in 1758. John Macgillivray in 1840 

 found that it was well known to the inhabitants 

 of that remote isle. 



Wallis, writing in 1769 {"Nat. Hist, and Antiq. 

 Northumberland," vol. i. p. 340), remarked : " The 

 Penguin, a curious and uncommon bird, was taken 

 alive a few years ago in the island of Farn, and 

 presented to the late John William Bacon, Esq., 

 of Etherstone, with whom it grew so tame and 

 familiar that it would follow him with its body 

 erect to be fed." In a footnote he has added the 

 description, " Alca rostro compresso ancipiti sul- 

 cato ; macula alba ante oculos " (Linn. Faun. Suec, 

 p. 43, n. 119). 



The records of its occurrence in Great Britain 

 are so few that they may be shortly enumerated 

 here as follows : — 



One taken alive, Fame Islands, before 1769. Wallis, 

 " Nat. Hist. Northumb.," 1769, vol. i. p. 340. 



One seen off Fair Isle, Orkney, June 1798. Baikie 

 and Heddle, " Hist. Nat. Orcadensis," p. 88. 



Two seen off Papa Westra, Orkney, 1812, one of which 

 was sent the following year to Bullock. At the sale of 

 his collection in 1819 it was purchased for the British 

 Museum, where it is still preserved. Montagu, " Orn. 

 Diet. Suppl." (1813). Mr, Harvie-Brown has given an 

 excellent account of the home of this bird in Orkney, with 

 a view of the ledge of rock from which the last specimen 

 was shot. " Fauna of Orkney," p. 246. 



One taken alive off St. Kilda in August 1821 or 1822, 

 and examined by Fleming; afterwards escaped. Edinb. 

 Phil. Journ., vol. x. p. 97 ; Fleming, " Hist. Brit. An.," 1828, 

 p. 130, and Macgillivray, "Hist. Brit. Birds," vol. v. p. 361. 



