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sea-fowl of the south any that manifest so close an affinity with the species of Aptenodytes 
as many of the northern winged sea-fowl show to Alca impennis. To speculate upon 
the derivative origin of either bird would be more agreeable than useful or really 
instructive, 
Since the foregoing pages were in type, I have been favoured by Samuzt Laine, Esq., 
of Keiss Castle, Wick, N. B., with an inspection of the remains of animals serving as 
food to an ancient race of men of the flint age, in Caithness-shire. 
Amongst the bones of birds in this kitchen-midden, including those of the Gannet 
(Sula bassana), Shag (Phalacrocorax graculus), Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), and 
Razor-bill (Alca torda), were the following bones of the Garfowl (Alca impennis, L.) :— 
The anterior or free extremity of the premaxillary ; a right and left humerus; a left 
tibia, and parts of three other tibiz, left and right. 
The premaxillary showed a little more vertical diameter than that of the specimen 
from Newfoundland, here described. In both, the extent from the tip to the fore 
margin of the bony external nostril is 2 inches ; the vertical diameter in front of the 
nostril in one is 94 lines, in the other it is 11 lines. 
The more recent testimonies of the Garfowl in the N.W. coasts of Scotland may be 
seen in Macautay, ‘ History of Kilda,’ 1764, and in S1psatp, ‘ Scotia Illustrata,’ 1684. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES, 
PLATE I. (Alca impennis). 
Fig. 1. Side view of the skeleton of the Garfowl (Alca impennis) : half nat. size. 
Fig. 2. Upper view of the skull: nat. size. 
Fig. 3. Under view of the skull: nat. size. 
Fig. 4. Upper view of the skull of Uria Grylle: nat. size. 
PLATE II. (Alca impennis). 
Fig. 1. Under surface of the sternum of Alca impennis. 
Fig. 2. Fore part of the same sternum. 
Fig. 3. Furculum of Alca impennis. 
Fig. 4. Under view of fourth cervical vertebra of Alca impennis. 
Fig. 5. Upper view of fourth cervical vertebra of Alea impennis. 
Fig. 6. Side view of fourth cervical vertebra of Alca umpennis. 
Fig. 7. Back view of fourth dorsal vertebra of Alca impennis. 

