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Museum [South Kensington], and submitted them to Dr. Bowdler 
Sharpe, who confirmed his identification, and kindly sent him on to 
me.”— cf. p. 33. 
The two eggs were exhibited by Mr. Bidwell at the meeting 
of the British Ornithologists Club at Frascati’s Restaurant, Oxford 
Street, on April 18tli, 1894. 
MOUNTED SPECIMEN III. and EGG XIV. 
(Sale number twelve.) 
PI. IV. 
A mounted specimen of the Great Auk, and a Great Auk’s egg, on 
April 23rd, 1895. 
The sale catalogue No. 9159, announces “ A magnificent specimen of 
the GREAT AUK AND EGG, from the collection of the late Sir 
William Milner, Bart. The property of Sir F. Milner, Bart., M.P.” 
Bird III. - “ Lot 260, GREAT AUK. 
This specimen was sold to Sir W. Milner by 
Graham, of York, who stated that it was 
taken in the Orkneys, Professor Newton 
believes that it was originally given by 
Gardner to the Rev. R. Buddicorn, of 
Smethcote, Shrewsbury, and purchased 
from him by Graham ; also that it comes 
from the Rock of Eldey, off the coast of 
Iceland. 
It is a magnificent specimen in summer 
plumage. It has recently been re-stuffed 
by Mr. Cullingford, of Durham, who states 
that it is a genuine specimen throughout, 
and that there is not a single false feather 
in it.” 
The reserve price not being reached at the public sale, it 
was purchased afterwards for the Royal Scottish Museum, 
Edinburgh, for £350 O O 
The above descriptive statement in the sale catalogue is 
incorrect, though copied from the label on the case. 
Professor Alfred Newton, in a letter (dated from Cambridge, 22nd 
April, 1895) to Mr. W. Raskin Butterfield—curator of the Hastings 
Museum—wrote as follows:—“I never believed that it was given by 
