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1855, p. 423), thereby misleading an English writer {Nat. Hist. Rev. 

 1865, p. 475) and numerous German readers. 



In further addition to this account already given it may be 

 here mentioned that in 1874 Prof. Milne visited Funk Island, the 

 famous resort in old times of this bird, in the Newfoundland seas, 

 a place where bones had before been obtained by Stuvitz, and 

 natural mummies so lately as 1863 and 1864, and landing there 

 at the risk of his life, he brought off a rich cargo of its remains, 

 belonging to no fewer than fifty birds, some of them in size 

 exceeding any that had before been known. His collection, since 

 dispersed, most of the specimens finding their way into various 

 public museums in this country, has, however, been far exceeded 

 by that made in 1887 by Mr. Lucas. ^ 



1 A literature by no means inconsiderable has grown up respectinsi the 

 Gare-fowl. Neglecting vForks of general bearing, few of which are without 

 many inaccuracies, and. omitting some to which reference has been already 

 made, the following treatises may be especially mentioned : — J. J. S. Steen- 

 strup, " Et Bidrag til Geirfuglens Naturhistorie og sserligt til Kundskaben cm 

 dens tidligere Udbredningskreds, " iN'aiwrTi.. For-en. Videnslc. J/efMeZcZser [Copen- 

 hagen], 185o, p. 33 ; E. Charlton, "On the Great Auk," Trails. Tyneside A^at. 

 Field Gluh, iv. p. Ill ; "Abstract of Mr. J. "Wolley's Researches in Iceland 

 respecting the Gare-fowl," Ibis, 1861, p. 374; W. Preyer, "Ueber Flavins 

 iriipcunis," Journ. fur Orn. 1862, pp. 110, 337 ; K. E. von Baer, "Ueber das 

 Aussterben der Thierarten in physiologischer und nicht physiologischer Hin- 

 sicht," Bull, de VAcad. Imp. de St. Pitersi. vi. p. 513 ; R. Owen, "Description 

 of the Skeleton of the Great Auk," Trans. Zool. Soe. v. p. 317 ; "The Gare- 

 fowl and its Historians," yat. Hist. Rev. x. p. 467 ; J. H. Gurney, jun., "On 

 the Great Auk," Zoologist, 2nd ser. pp. 1442, 1639 ; H. Reeks, "Great Auk in 

 Newfoundland," &;c., op. cit., p. 1854; V. Fatio, " Sur I'Alca impennis," ^i<7/. 

 Soc. Orn. Suisse, ii. pp. 1, 80, 147 ; "On existing Remains of the Gare-fowl,"' 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 256; J. Milne, "Relics of the Great Auk," Field, 27 March, 

 3 and 10 April 1875 ; J. A. Allen, " The Extinction of the Great Auk at the 

 Funk Islands," Am. Nat. 1876, p. 4§ ; Robert Gray, "On the Great Auk," 

 Proc. Hoy. Soc. Edinb. x. pp. 668-682 ; Symington Grieve, " Discovery of Remains 

 of the Great Auk . . . on . . . Oronsay," Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zoology) xvi. pp. 

 479-487, Tlie Great Auk or Garefowl (Edinburgh : 1885, 4to) [Reviews, Nature, 

 xxxii. p. 545, Atck, 1886, p. 262], "Recent Notes on the Great Auk," Trans. 

 Edinb. Field Nat. and Microscop. Soc. 1888, pp. 93-119; W. Blasius, " Uebev 

 die letzten Vorkomnisse des Riesen-Alks," Ver. f. Naturw. zu Braunschweig, iii. 

 l)p. 89-115, " Zur Geschichte der Ueberreste von Alca impennis," Journ. filr 

 Orn. 1884, pp. 58-176, "Neue Thatsachen in Betrelf der Ueberreste von 

 Alca impennis," Tagebl. Naturf. Vers. Magdeburg, 1884, pp. 321-323 ; R. 

 Collett, "Ueber Alca impennis in Norwegen," Mitth. Orn. Ver. JFien, 1884, 

 pp. 65-69, 85-89; F. A. Lucas, "Great Auk Notes," Auk, 1888, pp. 278-283, 

 "Expedition to the Funk Island, with Observations upon the History and 

 Anatomy of the Great Auk," liep. U. S. Nat. 3Ius. 1887-88, pp. 493-529 ; 

 F. Hardy, "Testimony of Some Early Voyagers on the Great Auk, Auk, 1888, 

 pp. 380-384; P. Leverkiihn, " Wann starb der Grosse Alk aus ? " Monatsschr. 

 Leutsch. Ver. Schutze VogehveU, 1888, pp. 388-390; Baron d'Hamonville, "Note 



