| Summary: | The Great Auk Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- The distribution of the Great Auk: the living bird in its American habitats -- The living Great Auk in its European habitats -- The remains of the Great Auk: introduction to the subject - discoveries in North America -- The remains of the Great Auk in Denmark and Iceland -- British remains of the Great Auk: Keiss in Caithness-shire -- British remains of the Great Auk (continued): Oronsay in Argyllshire -- How was Caisteal-nan-Gillean formed, and to what period does it probably belong? -- English remains of the Great Auk -- The habits of the garefowl, and the region it lived in -- Information regarding existing remains of the Great Auk, with lists of all recorded skins, bones, and eggs: tables giving the totals of each variety of remains in different countries - also information about skins, bones, eggs, imitation remains, and illustrations of remains -- The uses to which the Great Auk was put by man -- the names by which the Great Auk has been known, and their philology -- The period during which the Great Auk lived: conclusion -- Appendices. Recapitulation of the various investigations concerning the distribution of the garefowl, translated from the Danish / Professor J. Steenstrup, Copenhagen -- Epitomised translation from the German of that part of Professor Wh. Blasius' recent pamphlet ("Zur Geschichte der Ueberreste von Alca impennis, Linn.," Naumburg a/S 1884), which treats of the skins and eggs -- The most ancient discovery of the West Indies (Newfoundland), by Madoc, the son of Owen Gwyneth, Prince of North Wales, in the year 1170 -- Professor J. Steenstrup's remarks on East Greenland as an ancient station for the Great Auk -- Correspondence regarding the supposed stuffed skin of a Great Auk or garefowl (Alca impennis, Linn.), said to have been seen at Reykjavik, Iceland / R. Mackay Smith, Esq., and party -- Remarks by R. Champley, Esq., on the structure of the shell of the egg of the Great Auk or garefowl (Alca ...
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