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1. GREAT. 
: GREAT AUK, | 
Cuass II. 
GENUS XVII. AUK. 
Bit strong, thick, compressed. 
Nosrrits linear; placed near the edge of the 
mandible. 
TonGvueE almost as long as the bill. 
Toes, no back toe. 
Alcaimpennis. A. rostro com- 
presso-ancipiti sulcato, ma- 
cula ovata utrinque ante ocu- 
los. Lath. Ind. orn. 791. 
id. Syn. v. 311. 
Goirfugel. Clusté exot. 367. 
Penguin. Wormit, 300. 
Wil. orn. 323. 
Raz Syn. av. 119. 
Edw. av. 147. 
Martin’s voy. St. Kilda. 27. 
Avis, Gare dicta. Sib. Scot. 
ill. 22. 
Alca major, le grand Pingoin. 
Brisson av. vi. 85. Tab. 7. 
Hist. d'ois. ix. 393. Pl. 
Enl. 367. 
Esorokitsok*. Crants’s ea. 
i. 82. 
Alca impennis. Gm. Lin. 550. 
Faun. Suec. sp. 140. Beans 
Islandis Gyr-v Geyrfugl. Nor- 
vegis Fiert, 
Penguin, Brillefugl. Brun- 
nich, 105. 
Br. Zool. 1386. Arcé. Zool. ii. 
220. 
Anglemaage, 
ACCORDING to Mr. Martin, this bird 
breeds on the isle of St. Kilda; appearing there 
the beginning of AZay, and retirmg the middle 
of June. 
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. 
