1GG On Remains of the Great Auk and Ptarmigan. 



been considerably greater. The greatest diameter of its shell, 

 measured obliquely from tip to tip of the " rays/' is 16 mm. 

 In the published records of the species the only hosts men- 

 tioned by name are species of Globicephala ; but, as noted 

 above, there are in the British Museum and in the Museum 

 of Zoology, Cambridge, specimens taken off Shetland by 

 Air. P. C. Haldane from the tail of a finner-whale (Balamo- 

 ptera physahts). . Similarly, the specimens now recorded from 

 the South Sheflands were attached near the margin of the 

 tail-flukes of an Antarctic firmer, which many authorities 

 regard as specifically identical with B. physahis. 



XXI. — Remains of the Great Auk and Ptarmigait in the 

 Channel Islands.' By C. W. Andrews, D.Sc, F.ft.S. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



A SMALL collection of fragmentary bones from a cave in 

 St. Bre.lade's Bay, Jersey, was recently sent to me by 

 Professor It. R. Marett, F.S.A., for examination. The 

 specimens were few and very imperfect, but they included 

 two interesting additions to the fauna previously recorded 

 from the locality. The most important is the upper end of a 

 light humerus of the great auk (Alca impennis, Linn.) : this 

 fragment is quite characteristic and unmistakable. Tue most 

 southerly locality from which remains of the species had 

 previously been recorded is, I believe, Co. Water ford, where 

 they were found in kitchen-middens, and described by E. Gr. 

 Ussher in the ' Irish Naturalist,' vol. viii., Jan. 1899, p. 1. 

 Prof. Marett informs me that in a recently opened recess of 

 the Cavern of Gargas (Hautes Pyre'iieVs) there was found 

 engraved on the wall the figure of a bird which Avas supposed 

 to represent the great auk. If this determination turns out 

 to be correct, it would show that the range ot this bird was at 

 one time far greater than has hitherto been supposed. 



The other interesting specimen from St. Bielade's Bay is 

 a left tarsc-metatarsus of the ptarmigan [Lagopus mutus, 

 Monlin, sp.), also new to this locality. Previous collections 

 include remains of the woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, cave-bear, 

 and other characteristic Pleistocene animals. 



