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SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS.— PY.GOPOBES. 



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

 Camhridge Museum, and Vassar College, Poughkeepsie (the latter the original of Audul)on's 

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

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

 uring ahout 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 representing 

 perhaps a hundred individuals. 



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



