ALCA IMPENNIS. 
GREAT AUK. 
Beak compressed, edged ; an oval spot 
on each side before the eyes. 
AIca impennis, Lin. Gme. 
Le grand Pengoin, Buff. 
Penguin, Rah. 
Great Auk, Pen. Lath. Bew. Mont. 
PROVINCIAL. 
NORTHERN PENGUIN, KING OF 
THE AUKS, GAIR FOWL. 
The length of this species is about three 
feet. 
The female lays one egg, white, some- 
times irregularly marked with purplish 
lines, or blotched with ferruginous and 
black at the larger end; length six inches. 
The Great Auk is sometimes, though 
rearly met with in the British Isles; its 
