islands several years ago, that only otfe£ male had”, madefits
appearance for a long time, ■which had regula rljftfei'thd Fapd£
WMtraJor severahyearsv T h e ^ i ^ f e which the nati^Jb^all
the Queen of the Anfe^-was killedi^us^^OTe; Mr. Bullock's
arrival. The King, or' male, Mr. Bi|l(fck had t^Afleawife
chasing■ for -several hours■ in a4 siswarbd^hdat^ bili^without
being able t6 hill h i m , h i m ,
so expert-was the-bird in 4t^fatiwal ^eliniien%$ha^ijt-appeapd
-impossible; to shoot him. -il’fedr^pi’dity wi tluw hifEt-hd *pi\M
sued'his„cburfee under%atei^^almostt|in’cr^l«bj^l8 About
a fortnight after Mr. Bulloek, had fejift apap-
male?-bird’was obtained' and seh^P^ihintf,»and .ab|j||e.sale||ti
his collection was purchased for- the BritiOT'Mus’ou'M^^^^^
it is stilb carefully*’preserved.
Dr. Fleming has::n^pe<ftbne‘itaken)at -St.-Kihla-,*,a^jramd
of.the>Outer Hp^Wes,i,n the winterjbf l^^sT'^ni)£her':\ias
taken there-in J8|&| but a f te c f r a r d k ^ jj^ ^ ;
mri|t. £; Mr. Joh^n Macgillivray,.'who.iuMtpd_-t^^MSMssof the
Outer Hebrides -in July|f|840,?^ys; s“ -The Clroafe^Vfik ,wfas
declared-b^several of the inhabitant tdfbe of nSCiftA.ipfi in
occurrSiee about St. Kilda,:wh'fre^Fo^W^^t^ife>h()t''bl%l
knowiLto br-eed for' • niafly,years Hbfaek. four
mens oSl^ have been ever procured during the -nremory
oldest inhabitant.”: ^
The authors of the1 catalogue of NorMk' and Suffolk Birds
include a notice of hone^*specimen killed ncixr SouthMp ^ i| p
the authority of Sir William Jackson Hooker. Mr. Bulldck
told Dr. Fleming some years-ago that a specimeftfefeasf taken
_ in a pond of fresh water,:hw'btmife'&-from the ThameS1,4)h the
estate of Sir William ^Clayt^,. near M a rl|^ ;-k Buckinghamshire.
Dr. Bdward Moore, iri~his‘ - cat3do|jjti3£^(Jf the . web^
footed birds of-Devonshire, rjfers to alfepecimen.of this-bM
which! Was picked-up dead near Lundy Island in thi^year
18£9, -and which Professor Jameson. suggested might haVe
been, the one whipb had been obtained by Mr. Stevenson in
St. Kildky and whièh had escaped from the Light-house
k^epef j.ofi'Pladda. •-.Lastly; Mr. W . Thompson states that
onpipliithbS^birds taken:in j.8‘84, off the coast of the county
o.f W ateri%üd,nfe preserved, in the collection of D r. Burkitt of
W#-tey©i^ I t lwd|§in. confinement for some months.
faBboso % arc the only notices?-1 am acquainted with in re-
fpiEgnpe to the appearance óf >the Great. Auk: near the British
>ulöls5| It iis said to bei very : rarely'seen out of the water,
and the feiaialbilays^^rvsingle- large egg close, above the sea-
tide mark.: Theae'gg^measuEeg four inches-.ten lines in lèngth,
by two inches aiih ninle lkes^ihu breadth ; of a soiled white
colour, tihged with yellow, blotched and streaked, principally
;q®er thejlarger endf with black■//.<
4*oJlhe-rwings in this speciesrak so short that the bird is sup-
tgfftriQ.be incapable of flight, but short wings are admirably
adapted;for, sdiying^.and the Great Adb can- swim and dive.in
fipeffebtióu.t I t ikjepnsidered to feed almost exclusively upon
fish, and. is said, among others;* to prefer the Lump fish.
.: M. Nilsson - says this species; is- very rare in Sweden and
Norway.!; In a t volume of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library,
.containing a .historical and descriptive account of Iceland,
Greenland, and the Faróê islands, it is said, page 405, w The
Great Auk, whack.is the size of a gopse, used formerly to be,
feund iml^fe^diPOuntBies. In Landt’s time'it ..had, however,
becomeescahsee,-/and at present is 'almost unknown even by
namé^k-^ êlrllin^to Graba none havé been seen in Greenland,*
Ic e la n d e r late -years, so that the race may
Ibow be regarded, as; extinct.” ; No specimen was obtained by
our Arctic voyagers,upon either of the Northern expeditions.
T|)g% specimen represented by Edwards, plate 147, was obtained
at sea, over- a fishing bank, about one hundred leagues
from ^Newfoundland. . Mr. Audubon says, “ The only authen-
tic-iaccpunt óf the occurrence of this bird on our coast that
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