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Kodriguez, but now extinct. Other cases on the right-hand 
side of the gallery are occupied by birds allied to the common 
Fowl, and by the wading and swimming birds ; among them 
being a fine series of Pheasants and other game birds, the Great 
Bustard, once an inhabitant of our island, a pair of Flamingoes 
with their nest, the Great Auk (fig. 14) from the Northern 
Fig. 14. — Great Auk or Gare Fowl (Plautm impennu). 
(Fioiii the "Cambridge Natural History.") 
Seas, now extinct, and the large Emperor Penguin from the 
Antarctic Ocean, the first specimens of which were obtained 
during the British Antarctic expedition of 1839-43. Specimens 
of the egg of the Great Auk (fig. 15) are also contained in the 
collection, although onl}^ casts of these are exhibited. 
In the first two bays on tlie riglit side of the gallery are placed 
specimens of the peculiar division of birds called Eatitcc, from 
