skerries off the south-west of Iceland, whence the last-recorded
specimens were obtained in the year above
mentioned. I am the fortunate possessor of a fine
stuffed specimen of this species, which, from the date of
a ship's bill of lading written in Danish and Icelandic,
found inside the skin by the late IT. Ward, of Vere
Street, to whom it was sent to be mounted, was probably
obtained on the coast of Iceland about the year
1833; this specimen formerly belonged to my brother-in-
law, Mr. Arthur Crichton, and was purchased by me
after his death, with an egg bought by him from the
collection of the College of Surgeons. Tour other eggs
of this species, now at Cambridge, have been owned by
me, and my readers will perhaps be amused at reading
that one of the many visitors to our aviaries at Lilford
told my falconer, who was acting as his guide, that he
had read in a newspaper that I had given a very stiff
price for one of these eggs, and added an earnest
expression of hope that I had " hatched it successfully
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