Supplementary note on the great auk or garefowl (Alca impennis Linn) / by Symington Grieve.

  • Grieve, Symington.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Supplementary note on the great auk or garefowl (Alca impennis Linn) / by Symington Grieve. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1896-97-] Plate II. This is also a very interesting photograph, and has been sent me by Dr Anton Fritsch, of the Natural History Museum, Prague, to whom I tender my best thanks. Plate III This photograph is of a most interesting specimen. The copyright is the property of Mr Rowland Ward, F.Z.S., 166 Piccadilly, London, W., to whom I have to acknowledge my obligations. Plate IV. This photograph is of a little-known but very fine adult specimen of the Great Auk to which I refer at p. 250. I am indebted to M. Jules Yian, Honorary Presi- dent of the Zoological Society of France, Rue des Petits Champs 42, Paris, its owner, for kindly sending me the photograph. Plate V. This is also the work of Mr Joseph Jobling, photographer, 1 Shakespeare Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, who owns the copyright and has copies for sale. Description of Figures of the Great Auk {Alca impennis Linn.) Reproductions from Photographs given here- with. (These 'photographs are copyright.) Plate I. Young specimen preserved in the Natural History Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (see p. 267). Plate II. Young specimen preserved in the Natural His- tory Museum, Prague (see p. 268). Plate III. Immature specimen acquired by the Hon. W. Rothschild from Messrs Rowland Ward, Ld., London, for his Museum at Tring, Herts (see pp. 249 and 269). Plate 1Y. The specimen in the collection of M. Jules Vian, Honorary President of the Zoological Society of France, Rue des Petits Champs 42, Paris (see pp. 250 and 270). Plate V. Adult specimen in the Natural History Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (see p. 271).
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