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mens in this country,—in the Smithsonian Institution, in the 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 two 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 representing 
perhaps a hundred individuals. 
Fie. 661.—Great Auk. (From Sport with Gun and Rod. The Century Co., N. Y.) 
