GREAT AUK. 



PYGOPODES. 



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ALCID.E. 



^^^i"^^- 



Alca impennis, Linnaeus.'^ 

 THE GKEAT AUK, 



OR GARE-FOWL. 



Alca im2W7inis. 



The Great Auk was described as a very rare British Bird 

 when the 1st Edition of this work was puhHshed in 1843, 

 but in all probability neither the Author nor the majority 

 of the ornithologists of that generation suspected that the 



* Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 210 (1766). 



