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SYSTEM A TIC SYNOPSIS. — PYG OP ODES. 



in this cuuutry, — iu the Sinitlisouiiui lustitutiuii, in the Philadelphia Academy, the 

 Cambridge Museum, aud Vassar College, I'oughkeepsie (the latter the original of Audubon's 

 figures). There is an egg in each of the first two meutioned collections. In pattern of 

 coloration the egg is like that of the razor-billed auk, though it is of course much larger, meas- 

 miug about 5.00 X 3.00. About 70 skins appear to be preserved iu various museums, with 

 as many eggs, some half dozen more or less complete skeletons, and other bones representing 

 perhaps a hundred individuals. 





Fig. 561. — Great Auk. (From Sport with Gun and Rod. The Century Co., N. Y.) 



