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Besides the sources of information above indicated, 

 the following important articles relating to the history 

 of this singular bird should be referred to: Dr. 

 Charlton "On the Great Auk," Zoologist, 1860, 

 pp. 6883-6888; Professor Newton's "Abstract of Mr. 

 Wolley's Eesearches in Iceland," Ibis, 1861, pp. 374- 

 399, "On a Natural Mummy" of this bird, P. Z. S. 

 1863, reprinted in Zoologist, 1864, pp. 9122-9124, 

 " The Gare-fowl and its Historians," Nat. Hist. Re- 

 view, 1865, pp. 467-488, and "Existing Remains/* 

 Ibis, 1870, pp. 256-261 ; Coues, " Monograph of the 

 Alcidoe" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Jan. 

 1868 ; Steenstrup, " Materials for a history of Alca 

 impennis" (a French translation from the Danish ori- 

 ginal), Bulletin de la Soc. Orn. Suisse, 1868, tome ii. 

 pp. 5-70, and, in the same volume, Fatio, " Remarks 

 on specimens existing in Switzerland," pp. 7385 ; 

 J. H. Gurney, jun., " General notes and corrections 

 of Thompson's account of Irish specimens," Zoologist, 

 1868, pp. 1442-1453, and 1869, pp. 1639-1643; 

 Wyman, " Remains found in Kitchen-middens in 

 Maine and Massachusetts," American Naturalist, 

 1868, pp. 561 and 622; R. Gray, "Resume of Scot- 

 tish records of the species," 'Birds of the West of 

 Scotland ' (1871), pp. 441-453. In the last-mentioned 

 work will also be found an allusion to the discovery, 

 in 1864, of the remains of two Gare-fowls ina "kitchen- 

 midden " on the coast of Caithness. 



