a jit ant. a /Ms, £ i/cC y . 1 *&■ . /* - y lc. 
The last Great Auk. —It is generally supposed that this bird has been 
extinct for the last forty years. In the ‘ American Naturalist,’ however, for 
1872 (vol. vi. p. 369 ) there appears a notice of one which was found dead on 
the Labrador coast in 1870 The writer of the notice, Mr. Ruthven Deane, 
sa y s; —“While at Montreal, in August, 1871 , Mr. Alfred Lechevallier, a 
naturalist who has collected largely in Labrador, informed me of a specimen 
of this supposed to be extinct species: It was found dead in the vicinity of 
St. Augustin, Labrador coast, in November, 1870 , by some Indians, from 
whom Mr. Lechevallier obtained it while collecting there at the time. It 
was a male, and, although in a very bad state, he preserved it, and has 
recently ( 1872 ) sold it to a naturalist in France, who is to send it to Austria. 
Although it was a very poor specimen he realised two hundred dollars.” We 
should be glad to know whether any of our readers have seen this specimen, 
and can add anything further to its history; also whether they can inform 
us where it is now deposited. —Ed. 
-tit, J/(rVOLs AtirZZcO . 
. H , and here 
may be mentioned, though certainly not 
owing to Arctic currents, that about twelve 
or fifteen years ago a specimen of the Great 
extinct Auk was discovered by the late 
Lord Bishop of Newfoundland and pre¬ 
sented to a gentleman in Halifax. It had 
been dead a long time and was only feathers, 
skin and bones, and was found buried under 
guano at the Funk Islands by the Bishop) 
himself. I think this to be the last speci¬ 
men noted. 
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