122 308 



Hannen en hvidRing om Halsrn, rllcr ncBsten ovcralt hvid Hals og 

 Jwide Tingefjcere yderst i Vingen. Plautus Pingvinns Kleinii, s. 

 Alca mac. alba ante ocnlum, Linn. 



It is hardly possible that Str0m can have penned the above 

 notices from ocular inspection of the bird. The coloration of plum- 

 age is represented to vary in the different individuals; no mention 

 whatever is made of the wings, which in a description of the true 

 bird, could not be passed by unnoticed. Besides, the white spot 

 would not have been located above the eye, had Str0m been de- 

 scribing from autopsy. Indeed the entire account bears the impress 

 of being worked up from books. 



With the exception of what has been here transcribed, there 

 is no further account of the species in Strom's voluminous Journal, 

 though it certainly contains the sum of his observations on Natural 

 History; and hence the account of Alca inqjennis and of its occur- 

 rence on the Norwegian coast given by that author in his „S0nd- 

 m0res Beskrivelse^\ cannot possibly refer to the true species, tvhich 

 indeed he had never had an opportunity of examining. 



2. In the year 1764, Briinniche in his „Ornithologia borealis^', 

 p. 2G, notices, that a specimen of this species, marked ,,cx Norvegia'% 

 was preserved in the Museum at Copenhagen. Whether this speci- 

 men actually came from Norway, is of course impossible to decide, 

 but several species, which hardly had occurred within the confines 

 of the country, are the subject of a similar designation. 



3. In Krogh's „Efterretninger om Frovstiet Nordfjord'', writ- 

 ten in 1766 — 80 \ there is the following passage: — 



Anglemager (Alca impennis) haldes her almindeligst Anglefile, 

 fmdes i Mcengde om Vinteren ved Havkysten, men hommcr hun sjel- 

 dent ind i Fjord ene. 



This statement is obviously based on Strom's remarks, men- 

 tioned above. 



4. In 1850, Lilljeboyg in his „Bidrag till Norra Rysslands 

 och Norriges Fauna'' etc. ^ records that „Alca impennis shulle for 



' Topogr. Statist. Saml. Part 2, Vol. 1. 

 ^ Kgl. Vet. Akad. Handl. f. 1850, p. 331. 



