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successive tres, antequam ingluviem expleret. Dorsi plume adéo 
molles et equales, ut holosericeum nigrum zemularetur, venter 
eximio erat candore. Supra oculos aream rotundam, candidam, 
Daleri magnitudine habuit, et perspiciliis dotatam jurares (quod 
non animadvertit Clusius). Nec ale eam obtinuere figuram, quam 
idem exprimit, latiores enim paulo erant, cum limbo albo. Quocirca 
meam avem ad vivum depingi curavi, ut Icon esset accuratior.’ 
(Mus. Worm. p. 300). The figure indeed is sufficiently accurate, 
except that the artist has embellished its throat with a narrow 
white collar. 
“Debes, whose ‘Feroa Reserata’ was published in 1673, 
merely mentions the ‘Garfogel’ as occurring in these islands, 
adding that he had several times had them, that they were 
easily tamed, but would not live long inland (p. 130). Mohr, a 
Feroese by birth, in 1786, speaks of some being caught there most 
summers (Forsceg Isl. Naturhist. p. 25). Landt, in his ‘ Beskrivelse 
over Fzrcerne, in 1800, states that the ‘Gaarfuglur’ was then 
beginning to become more rare there (p. 254). Graba, who 
voyaged thither in 1828, prematurely thought it was extinct, and 
declared that most of the natives did not even know the bird by 
name, though some old people believed they had formerly seen it 
at Westmannshavn, and one man, lately dead, told him he had 
there killed with a stick an old one as it sat on its egg (Reise nach 
Faro, pp. 198, 199). When Professor Steenstrup visited the 
islands, he saw the head of a bird preserved upon one of them. In 
1849, Wolley (Contrib. Orn. 1850, p. 115) was told by an old man 
that he had seen one sitting on the low rocks fifty years before, at 
which time, undoubtedly, it was very rare.” 
In addition to these authors referred to by Professor Newton, I 
am informed by Sysselmand Miiller that Svabo (Ms. Vols. Roy. 
Lib. Copen. 1781, 1782) mentions that he never knew of the 
“Gorfuglir” laying its egg in Feroe, but was aware of a bird 
being killed on the island of Fugloe from which an egg was 
extracted. ; 
Oliger Jacobeus, Regius Professor of Medicine, in his Cata- 
logue of the Royal Museum at Copenhagen, published in 1696, 
a second edition of which was published by John Laurentzen, in 
1710, gives a plate and account of the bird which seems to have 
been pirated in a great measure from Olaf Worm, though his 
account would lead one to believe that the Royal Museum at 
