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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. — PYG OF ODES. 



mens in this country, — in the Smithsonian Institution, in tlie Philadelphia Academy, the 

 Cambridge Museum, and Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (the latter the original of Audubon's 

 figures). There is an egg in each of the first twcj mentioned collections. In pattern of 

 coloration the egg is like that of the razor-billed auk, though it is of course much larger, meas- 

 uring about 5.00 X 3.00. About 70 skins appear to be preserved in various museums, with 

 as many eggs, some half dozen more or less complete skeletons, and other bones representiug 

 perhaps a hundred individuals. 



Fig. 661. — Great Auk. (From Sport with Gun and Rod. The Century Co., N. Y.) 



