The Skins and Eggs of the Great Auk
01 January 1935
Main paper
NEWTON (Ibis, 1870, p. 259) estimated the number of existing skins at 71 (or 72 ?). Symington Grieve, in his monograph The Great Auk, or Garefowl, recorded 77 specimens of the Great Auk (Alca impennis) as existing in 1885 in the Appendix, pp. 4-24. (This ...
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