206 ALCID^E. 



Alca impennis. GREAT AUK. 



Alca impennis, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 210 (1766). 



Alca impennis, Naum. xii. p. 630; Macg. v. p. 359; Hewit- 

 son, p. 469; Gray, p. 216; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 476; 

 id. ed. 3, iii. p. 479; Gould, v. pi. 46; Harting, p. 71; 

 Dresser, viii. p. 563. 



The Great Auk, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 369. 



Impennis = wingless ; from in + penna. 



The Great Auk formerly occurred in various British 

 waters, and bred at St. Kilda and perhaps on other northern 

 islands, but is believed to be now extinct everywhere, the 

 last recorded examples having been killed on Eldey, on the 

 coast of Iceland, in 1844. It originally inhabited the seas 

 and islands from N. Scotland to Iceland, Newfoundland, and 

 Labrador. 



Genus LOMVIA, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. 1837, 

 ii. p. 345. 



Lomvia, latinized from the Norwegian name, spelt Lomwia by Willughby 

 (Orn. 1676, p. 244). 



Loiiivia troile. COMMON GUILLEMOT. 

 Colymbus Troile, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 220 (1766). 

 Uria lomvia, Naum. xii. p. 508. 

 Uria troile, Macg. v. p. 318; Hewitson, p. 455; Yarr. 



ed. 2, iii. p. 450; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 453; Gould, v. pi. 48; 



Harting, p. 74. 



Uria hringvia, Naum. xii. p. 524. 

 Uria lacrymans, Macg. v. p. 326; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 458; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 461. 

 Uria troile et ringvia, Gray, p. 219. 

 Alca troile, Dresser, viii. p. 567. 

 The Common Guillemot, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 343. 

 The Ringed Guillemot^ Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 351. 



Troile, said to be intended as a compliment to Troil the Icelander. 



