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lected by Professor Lilljeborg on the coast of Norway, and about 
the same number at Stockholm, taken by Professor Lovén on 
the same coast. In both cases those shells were separated, as 
distinct from described species, but not named. Reference 
being made to Mr. Jeffreys, he recognized them, and mentioned 
my intention of describing the species and naming it after him, 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Nov. 10, 1863.—EK. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., F.Z.S., in the Chair. 
REMARKS ON THE ExuiBiTion oF A Naturat Mummy oF 
ALCA IMPENNIS. By ALFrepD Newron, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
For the last twenty-one years, since the appearance of the part of 
Mr. Yarrell’s ‘History of British Birds’ containing his account of 
Alea impennis, wherein was cited M. Audubon’s statement that that 
species bred on an island in the neighbourhood of Newfoundland, 
the attention of ornithologists in this country has been more or less 
directed to that colony, in the hope of obtaining thence specimens 
of this rare and curious bird. Mr. John Wolley, with his usual 
sagacity, applying the knowledge he had culled from his extensive 
researches among the works of our older naturalists, not only soon 
made out the truth of Willughby’s supposition, “ Penguin nautis 
nostratibus dicta, que Goifugel Hoieri esse videtur’’ (Ornithologia, 
Lond. 1676, p. 242), but found that the name was still persistent 
among those who were yet engaged in the Cod-fishery in the New- 
foundland seas. Among his various memoranda I find one, appa- 
rently written about the year 1850, to this effect :— 
“In Newfoundland, Funk or Penguin Isle is 170 miles north of 
St. John’s, and about thirty-six miles north-east by east from Cape 
Freels, the north headland of Bonavista Bay. There are also Pen- 
guin Isles two or three miles from shore; Penguin Islands, too, in 
the middle of the south coast of Newfoundland.” 
This note was evidently written after making a careful examination 
of the map; and I well remember, in February 1856, going over a 
chart of the North Atlantic with him, in which he had previously 
marked the various places known as “‘ Penguin Island,”’ “‘ Bird Rock,” 
and the like. To the best of my recollection, he also told me, either 
at the same or some former period, that in the course of his reading 
he had come across various notices of “ Penguins,’’ contained in the 
narratives of ancient voyages to that part of the world. All this 
time, however, I had not, been altogether idle in the way of collecting 
(or at least seeking for) information on the subject. In the summer 
of 1853, as I have elsewhere stated*, a boatman at Torquay, then 
about seventy years of age, and by name William Stabb, told my 
* * Zoology of Ancient Europe,’ London and Cambridge, 1862, p. 30. 
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