SUPPLEMENT. 
MEMOIR 
ON THE 
EXTINCT WINGLESS SEA-BIRD, OR GARFOWL, 
INCLUDING A 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SKELETON OF THE 
ALCA IMPENNIS, L. 

MR. ALFRED NEWTON, M.A., F.L.S., who, with his friend the late lamented 
and accomplished naturalist Mr. I 
Wolley, has contributed valuable ma- 
terials’ for the history of the Gar- 
fowl (Alca impennis, L.), prosecuting 
his endeavours to obtain additional 
materials for that history, has re- 
ceived the body of a specimen, dried, 
flattened, featherless,and mummified, 
like the Penguins from the guano- 
masses of the Peruvian islands. This 
specimen was obtained from one of 
the old breeding-places of the extinct 
bird, Funk Island, long. 53° W., lat. 
49° 45'N., off the coast of Newfound- 
land, by the Bishop of that colonial 
diocese, and was transmitted by his 
Lordship to Mr. Newton, who has 
kindly confided it to me for descrip- 
tion, with permission to treat the spe- 
cimen as might best serve the in- 
terests of science. 
A preliminary photograph of the 
mummy having been taken, it was 

, Philadelphia: gj 
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Old breeding-ground of Alca impennis. 
* See abstract of Mr. Wolley’s “ Researches in Iceland respecting the Garefowl, or Great Auk (Alca impennis, 
Linn,),” by Alfred Newton, Esq., M.A., F.Z.S., ‘Ibis,’ October 1861, p. 374. 
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