1896-97-] The Great Auk. 257 



"Whitepark Bay is on the north coast of Antrim, lying 

 about midway between Ballycastle and the Giant's Causeway." 



Boxes. 



British Isles. 



Ballymena. — In the collection of Mr W. J. Knowles, Flixton 

 Place, Ballymena, there are bones representing at least five or 

 six individual birds (see p. 256). 



Dublin. — In the Natural History Museum of the Royal 

 Irish Academy there are bones representing probably three 

 specimens (see p. 256). In answer to my inquiry by letter, 

 the Secretary of the Boyal Irish Academy, writing on 22nd 

 April 1897, says : " The curatorship of the Academy's Museum 

 is vacant, and pending the appointment of a successor to the 

 late curator I have not been able to get particulars of the 

 objects from Whitepark Bay." 



Leeds : Museum of the Philosophical and Literary Society. — 

 Writing me on 22nd November 1887, Mr Wm. Eagle Clarke, 

 then of Leeds, now of Edinburgh, says : " We have some of the 

 Funk Island remains in this Museum. They were purchased 

 of Gerrard, the dealer." 



London.- — A right humerus was presented to Mr E. T. 

 Newton by Mr W. J. Knowles, Ballymena, and is now in the 

 possession of Mr Newton, who writes me from the Geological 

 Survey Office, 28 Jermyn Street, London, S.W., 7th April 

 1897 (see p. 256). 



London. — Skull and several bones in the possession of Mr 

 Powland Ward, F.Z.S., 166 Piccadilly, London, W., in litt. 

 dated 23rd December 1896. In another letter, dated 22nd 

 March 1897, Mr Ward informs me that " the bones in question 

 came from Funk Island, and were bought at Stevens' Auction 

 Rooms." 



Tring, Herts. — In the museum of the Hon. W. Rothschild 

 there are some bones taken from a stuffed bird purchased from 

 Shaw of Shrewsbury. Mr Rowland Ward, F.Z.S., in litt. 

 19th March 1897. 



