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Plate III. Boucard-Field Specimen of the Great Auk. 



Photograph received 25th March 1897 from Mr Rowland Ward, 

 166 Piccadilly, London, W. 



The photograph shows some slight traces of speckles upon the 

 dark plumage of the neck and breast. 



The upper mandible has three furrows distinct and two obscure. 



The under mandible has nine furrows distinct and one obscure. 



The bird is smaller in size than any adult specimen I know of. 



The white spot upon its head in front of the eye is clearly 

 defined. 



There is a dark shade upon the white plumage on the body lower 

 than the wing, as if it were a trace of the same dark patch of plumage 

 shown in the young Prague specimen, which is an extension of the 

 dark plumage on the same part of its body on to the white plumage. 



The bird is stuffed in what seems to me a natural position. 



