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GREAT AUK. 



Class II. 



GENUS XVII. AUK. 



Bill strong, thick, compressed. 



Nostrils linear; placed near the edge of the 



mandible. 

 Tongue almost as long as the bill. 



Toes, no back toe. 



1. Great. Alca impennis. A. rostro com- 

 presso-ancipiti sulcato, ma- 

 cula ovata utrinque ante ocu- 

 los. Lath. Ind. orn. 7gi. 

 id. Syn. v. 311. 



Goirfugel. Clusii exot. 367. 



Penguin. Wormii, 300. 



Wil. orn. 323. 



IRaii Syn. av. lip. 



Edw. av. 147. 



■Martins voy. St. Kilda. 27- 



Avis, Gare dicta. Sih. Scot. 

 iii. 22. 



Alca major, le grand Pingoin. 



Brisson av. vi. 85. Tab. 7. 



Hist, d'ois. ix. 393. PL 



Enl. 367. 

 Esorokitsok*. Crantz's Greenl. 



i. 82. 

 Alca impennis. Gm. Lin. 550. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 140. 

 Islandis Gyr-v Geyrfugl. Not' 



vegis Fisert, Anglemaage, 



Penguin, Brillefugl. Brun- 



nich, 105. 

 Br. Zool. 136. Arct. Zool. ii. 



220. 



According to Mr. Martin, this bird 

 breeds on the isle of St. Kilda; appearing there 

 the beginning of May, and retiring the middle 

 of Jw2e. It lays one egg, which is six inches 

 long, of a white color; some are irregularly 

 marked with purplish lines crossing each other, 



* Or little wing. 



