34° The Great Auk. [Sess. 



I believe this is the first time that the skin preserved in 

 the Museum of M. le Baron de Vilmarest at Nielles-les- 

 Ardes has been recorded in Britain, and Mons. H. Duchaussoy, 

 who first drew attention to it, deserves our congratulations 

 upon its discovery. It was to the same gentleman that I was 

 indebted for the information that the skin that belonged to 

 the collection of Mons. Ernest Delegorgue was amissing. I 

 think that, although there is a missing link in the evidence, 

 the probability is that this is the skin that I had recorded as 

 belonging to the Hon. W. Bothschild, and figured on Plate III., 

 p. 269. If it is not the skin from the Delegorgue collection, 

 then it is an unknown skin, so that we have one skin at least, 

 and perhaps two, to record as additions to my previously pub- 

 lished lists. 



Additional bones, representing at least, four if not five, speci- 

 mens, appear to have been discovered in the kitchen-middens of 

 the coast of Ireland, as I have just recorded, so these have 

 to be added to former lists ; and also bones from Danish 

 kitchen-middens, representing at least eight individuals. 



The summary of existing remains of the Great Auk or 

 Garefowl (Alca impcnnis Linn.) may now be stated as 

 follows : — 



Number of birds represented by the following remains — 



Birthplace of the late Professor J. Japetus S. Steenstrup. — 

 From the information contained in Chambers's ' Encyclopaedia,' 

 I gave, at p. 272 of this volume, Vang, in Norway, as the 

 birthplace of the late Professor Steenstrup. I am now in- 

 formed that his birthplace was Vang, in Thy, north-west part 

 of Jutland. 



[All changes of Alcine remains, noted by me to 31st July 

 1898 from 31st July 1897, are mentioned in this paper.- 

 S. G] 



