1863.] MR. A. NEWTON ON ALCA IMPENNIS. 435 



planiusculis, iufra suturas pallidiorihus , anfractu ultimo magna ; 

 apertura ovata, antice producta, regione umbilicali impressa ; labia 

 effuso, subcallosa. 

 Hab. Banks of the Yang-tsze-kiang and Peiho. 

 A large brickdust-red species, very like A. bridgesi, Pfr., from 

 South America, but more ovate and less conoidal in form. 



29. MODIOLARCA EXILIS, H. & A. Ad. 



M. testa parva, ovato-trigonali, vix compressa, rubra, nitida, sape 

 atro-purpurea, latere antico breviore subangulato, postico longiore 

 rotundato ; margine ventrali arcuato, postice subsinuoso. 

 Alt. li line, lat. 2 lines. 



Hab. Found floating, attached to Fucus, near the Falkland Islands 

 {Coll. H. Adams.). 



A shining red or purple, ovately triangular species, and with the 

 ventral margin sinuated at the hind part. 



30. MoDioLARCA pusio, H. & A. Ad. 



M. testa parva, ovato-trapezoidali, sordide alba, epidermide concen- 

 trice lamellosa obtecta, latere antico brevissimo subtruncato, pa- 

 stice producta rotundato ; margine ventrali subrecto. 

 Alt. 1 line, lat. 2^ lines. 



Hab. Found floating, with the preceding, off the Falkland Islands 

 (Coll. H. Adams.). 



Modiolarca pusilla, Gould, Exp. Shells, pi. 44. fig. 585, is oblong 

 in form, the greatest diameter being from beak to ventral margin. 



13. Remarks on the Exhibition of a Natural Mummy of 

 Alca IMPENNIS. By Alfred Newton, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



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, quce 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 New- 

 foundland seas. Among his various memoranda I find one, appa- 

 rently written about the year 1850, to this efl'ect : — 



" In Newfoundland, Funk or Penguin Isle is 1 70 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 Pen- 



