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allusion to the discovery, in 18G4, of the remains of 

 two Gare-fowls in a " kitchen-midden " on the coast 

 of Caithness. Milne, " Relics of the Great Auk," 

 Field, March 27, April 3 and 10, 1875 (subse- 

 quently reprinted in 8vo, pp. 16) ; Lucas, (l) 

 " Expedition to Funk Island, with Observations on 

 the History and Anatomy of the Auk," Report U.S. 

 jYat. Mtis., 1887-88, pp. 493-529, and (2) "Ani- 

 mals Recently Extinct," op. cit., 1888-89, pp. 609- 

 649 ; Dr. J. A. Smith on the "Remains of the Great 

 Auk found in Caithness," Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot- 

 land, vol. xiii., 1879. A considerable number of 

 bones have been found at White Park Bay, Antrim, 

 and off the Waterford River. This bird must have 

 been at one time quite common in Ireland. 



Since the first edition of this Handbook ap- 

 peared, Mr. Symington Grieve has published an 

 important monograph on this bird (4to, Edinburgh, 

 1885, pp. 141, and Appendix, pp. 41), reviewed 

 in The Zoologist, 1885, p. 390. Mr. Grieve 

 subsequently published some " supplementary in- 

 formation " in octavo form in a Presidential Ad- 

 dress to the Edinburgh Field Naturalists' Society, 

 1888. 



In shape and colour the eggs of the Great 

 Auk resemble large eggs of the Razor - bill, 

 and measure on an average 4*9 in. by 275 in. 

 Coloured figures of several in different collections 

 may be found in the works of Thienemann, Badeker, 

 Hewitson, Meyer, Seebohm, and Symington Grieve 

 above mentioned, as well as in two memoirs Sur 



