GREAT AUK. 



NATATORES. 



479 



ALCADJE. 



THE GREAT AUK. 



Alca impennis. 



Aha impennis, The Great Auk, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 146. 



MONTAGU, 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. 



,, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Pingouin tracliiptere, 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 



