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Hannen en hvid Ring om Halsen, eller næsten overalt hvid Hals og 

 kvide Vingefjære yderst i Vingen. Plautus Pingvinus Kleinii, s. 

 Alca mac. alba ante oculum, Linn. 



It is hardly possible that Strøm can have penned the above 

 notices from ocular inspection of the bird. The coloration of plum- 

 age is represented to vary in the different individuals; no mention 

 whatever is made of the wings, which in a description of the true 

 bird, could not be passed by unnoticed. Besides, the white spot 

 would not have been located above the eye, had Strøm been de- 

 scribing from autopsy. Indeed the entire account bears the impress 

 of being worked up from books. 



With the exception of what has been here transcribed, there 

 is no further account of the species in Strøm's voluminous Journal, 

 though it certainly contains the sum of his observations on Natural 

 History; and hence the account of Alca impennis and of its <><■< «r- 

 rence on the Norwegian coast given by that author in his „Sønd- 

 møres Beskrivelse", cannot possibly ref er to the true species, which 

 indeed hc had never had an opportunity of Bxamining, 



2. In the year 1764, Briinniche in his „Ornithologia borealis", 

 p. 26, notices, that a specimen of this species, marked „ex Norvegia", 

 was preserved in the Museum at Copenhagen. Whether this speci- 

 men actually came from Norway, is of course impossible to decide, 

 but several species, which hardly had occurred within the confines 

 of the country, are the subject of a similar designat ion. 



3. In Krogh' ] s »Efter r eininger om Provstiet Nordfjord", writ- 

 ten in 1766 — 80 l , there is the following passage: — 



Anglcmagcr (Alca impennis) kaldes her almindeligst Anglcfilc, 

 findcs i Mcengde om Vinteren ved Havlcystcn, men kommer kun sjel- 

 dent ind i Fjordene. 



This statement is obviously based on Strøm's remarks, men- 

 tioned above. 



4. In 1850, Lilljeborg in his ^Bidrag till Nor ra By sslands 

 och Norriges Fauna" etc.' 2 records that ,<Alca impennis skulle for 



1 Topopr. Statist. Saml. Part 2, Vol. 1. 

 1 Kgl Vet. Akad. Handl. f. 1850, p. 331. 



