AUK. 



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GENUS XCIX.— AUK. 



* With a compressed Bill. 



1 Great Auk 



2 Tufted 



3 Puffin 

 A Var. 



4 Labrador 



5 Razor-billed 



6 Black-billed 



7 Crested 



8 Dusky 



9 Perroquet 



10 Ancient 



11 Little 



12 Minute 



** With a depressed Bill. 



13 Flat-billed 



UlLL smooth-edged, short, compressed,* convex, frequently trans- 

 versely furrowed. 



Nostrils linear, parallel to the edge. 



Tongue almost as long as the bill. 



Toes three in number, placed forwards. 



* WITH A COMPRESSED BILL. 



1.— GREAT AUK. 



Alca impennis, Ind. Orn. ii. 791. Lin. i. 210. 3. Fn. suec. No. 140. Gm. Lin. i. 550. 



Brim. No. 105. Muller, p. 17. Fn. groenl. No. 52. Borowsk. iii. 32. Gerin. 



iv. t. 497. 

 Alca major, Bris. vi. 85. 1. t. 7. Id. 8vo. ii. 382. 

 Pingouin brachiptere, Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. 939. 

 Penguin, Raii, 118. Will. 242. t. 65. Id. Engl. 322. t. 65. Edw. pi. 147. Nat. 



Misc. pi. 417. 

 Le grand Pingouin, Buf. ix. 393. pi. 29. PL enl. 367. 

 Great Auk, Gen. Syn. v. 311. Br. Zool. ii. No. 229. pi. 81. Id. /ol. 136. Id. 1812. 



ii. 146. pi. 26. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 424. Edw. pi. 147. Beieick, ii. pi. p. 162. 



Lewin, vi. 21. pi. 222. Walcot, i. pi. 86. Orn. Diet. §■ App. 



SIZE of a Goose ; length three feet. Bill four inches and a 

 quarter, covered in great part with short downy feathers, the colour 



* The last excepted, in which it is depressed. 



