9122 Birds. 
Barrow’s Goldeneye—In printing Mr. Graham’s communication (Zool. 9039) the 
locality where this bird was formerly obtained should be Iceland, not Ireland: there 
was not a single name of place or bird legibly written; I guessed at them as well as I 
could; but I must express a wish that correspovdents would exercise a little more care 
in their MS.—Edward Newman. 
Puffin in Sussex.—A very beautiful specimen of the puffin has just been brought 
to me, shot off our town this morning: it is a very rare bird in this part of the channel ; 
I never previously obtained one during my residence here.—J. Dutton ; Lastbourne, 
April 20, 1864. 
Ringed Guillemot off Eastbourne.—Yesterday I had brought me for inspection a 
beautiful specimen of the ringed guillemot, shot off this town on the morning of that 
day. It was in company with common guillemots, of which birds there are great 
numbers off our coast at the present time.—Jd. ; April 19, 1864. 
Remarks on the Exhibition of a Natural Mummy of Alca impennis.—For the last 
twenty-one years, since the appearance of the part of Mr. Yarrell’s ‘ History of British 
Birds’ containing his account of Alca impennis, wherein was cited Mr. 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 Newfound- 
land seas. Among his various memoranda I find one, apparently 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 Penguin Isles two or three 
miles from shore; Penguin Islands, too, in the middle of the south coast of New- 
foundland.” 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 brother Edward and my- 
self that in former days he used to follow the Newfoundland cod-fishery, and that he 
had seen penguins off that coast. He added that they used to resort by hundreds to” 
some islands there to breed, but were destroyed for their feathers, being driven up in a 
corner by people in boats. This practice, however, must have nearly or altogether 
ceased in his time; for he stated that he had never seen but two or three birds him- 
self, and never a dead one. I mention these facts merely to show that Mr. Wolley’s 
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* ‘Zoology of Aucient Europe, Loudon and Cambridge, 1862, p. 30, 
