Class II, 



GREAT AUK. 



£07 



BILL ftrong, thick, comprefied. 



NOSTRILS linear ; placed near the edge of the 



mandible. 

 TONGUE almoft as long as the bill. 

 TOES, no back toe. 



XL. AUK. 



Goirfugel. Chtfii exot. 36 7. 



Penguin. Wormii, 300, 



Wil, or ft. 323. 



Rati fyn. aw* 1 19. 



Ednjj. av. 147. 



Martin's <voy. St. Kilda. 27. 



Avis, Gare di&a. Sib, Scot. 



HI. 22. 

 Alca major, le grand Pingoin. Br, Zool. 136 



Brifon a<v. VI. 85. Tab, 7, 



Eforokitfok *. Crantz? sGreenl, 229. Great, 



I. 82. 

 Alca impennis. Lin.fyji. 210. 

 Faun. Suec. fp. 140. 

 IJlandis Gyr-v Geyrfugl. Nor- 



<vegis Fiasrt, Anglemaage, 



Penguin, Brillefugl. Brun- 



nich, 105. 



ACCORDING to Mr. Martin, this bird breeds 

 on the ifle of St, Kilda -, appearing there the 

 beginning of May, and retiring the middle of 

 June, It lays one egg, which is fix inches long, 

 of a white color ; fome are irregularly marked with 

 purplifh lines eroding each other, others blotched 

 with black and ferruginous about the thicker end : 

 }f the egg is taken away, it will not lay another 



Or little wing. 



that 



