AUKS. 4a 
Besides the sources of information above indicated, 
the following important articles relating to the history 
of this singular bird should be referred to:—Dr. 
Charlton “On the Great Auk,” Zoologist, 1860, 
pp. 6883-6888; Professor Newton’s “Abstract of Mr. ° 
Wolley’s Researches in Iceland,” Ibis, 1861, pp. 374— 
399, “On a Natural Mummy” of this bird, P. Z. 5S. 
1863, reprinted in Zoologist, 1864, pp. 9122-9124, 
“The Gare-fowl and its Historians,’ Nat. Hist. Re- 
view, 1865, pp. 467-488, and “ Existing Remains,” 
Ibis, 1870, pp. 256-261 ; Coues, ‘‘ Monograph of the 
Alcide,’ Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Jan. 
1868; Steenstrup, “ Materials for a history of Alca 
impennis” (a French translation from the Danish ori- 
ginal), Bulletin de la Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1868, tome 1. 
pp. 5-70, and, in the same volume, Fatio, “ Remarks 
on specimens existing in Switzerland,” pp. 73-89; 
J. H. Gurney, jun., “‘General notes and corrections 
of Thompson’s account of Irish specimens,” Zoologist, 
1868, pp. 1442-1458, and 1869, pp. 1639-1643; 
Wyman, “Remains found in Kitchen-middens in 
Maine and Massachusetts,” American Naturalist, 
1868, pp. 561 and 622; R. Gray, “ Résumé of Scot- 
tish records of the species,’ ‘Birds of the West of 
Scotland’ (1871), pp. 441-453. In the last-mentioned 
work will also be found an allusion to the discovery, 
in 1864, of the remains of two Gare-fowls ina “kitchen- 
midden” on the coast of Caithness. 
