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described a bird to him that was captured by his father in Ipswich many 
years ago, which, from the description, Mr. Cabot was convinced was a 
specimen of the Great Auk.” 
At. p. 85 of Mr. Grieve’s volume he remarks, with reference 
to the remains from the shell-heaps near Ipswich, Mass., above 
alluded to, that he has been unable to ascertain where these 
bones are at present preserved. If we mistake not, they are to 
be found in the Peabody Museum at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
of which Museum Mr. F. W. Putnam, above mentioned, is the 
Curator. 
The following lines by an accomplished friend, Mr. H. W. 
Freeland, M.A. (late M.P. for Chichester), and never before pub- 
lished, may be appropriately printed here as a contribution to 
the poetic literature of the subject :— 
THE GAREFOWL. 
They seek thee far and near, from shore to shore, 
Through creeks and rocks and Outer Hebrides, 
As wandering Science fondly sought of yore 
The missing Sister of the Pleiades. 
Mid Faroe Islands, where the Gulf Stream flows, 
Diffusing warmth and plenty on its way, 
They seek thee, while with beauty twilight glows, 
And bright Auroras lengthen out the day. 
The Orkneys know thee not, though once their boast ; 
Volcanic Iceland lash’d by wave and storm, 
Seeks fruitlessly along her rock-bound coast 
The outline of thy once familiar form. 
They seek thee where Norwegian Fjords abound, 
Aud bold adventurers every creek explore ; 
Where feather’d tribes securer haunts have found 
Neath sheltering crags on Scania’s rugged shore. 
They find thee not! strange mystery that Man 
Hath oft his great Creator’s works displac’d, 
Thou, once a wonder in Creation’s plan, 
Art now a lingering shade on Memory’s waste. 
In addition to other illustrations (including those of bones of 
this bird found in Caithness, and a sheath of an upper mandible 
from a cave near Whitburn Lizards, Co. Durham), Mr. Grieve’s 
work contains two excellent coloured figures, of the natural size, 
ZOOLOGIST.—ocr. 1885 2H 
