GREAT AUK. 



NATATORES. 



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 ALCADJE. 



THE GREAT AUK. 



Alca impennis. The Great Auk, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol.ii. p. 146. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 174. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 129. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 433. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 261. 

 Goui.D, Birds of Europe, pt. xiii. 

 Pingouin bracliiptire, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 939. 



The Great Auk is a very rare British Bird, and but few 

 instances are recorded of its capture. " The natives in the 

 Orkneys informed Mr. Bullock on his tour through these 



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