The Great AukIts strange and mysterious story is told in the pages of this book through more than 400 illustrations, bringing together almost every known archival image of the species, dramatic photographs of the lonely islands it once inhabited, artists' renderings of the bird, and intriguing pictures of the many fascinating characters who became involved in the Great Auk's tragic story."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Contents Prologue page | 15 |
The Great Auk page | 18 |
The Great Auks Appearance page | 22 |
Copyright | |
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adult in summer Alca impennis Alfred Newton Annals and Magazine appendix auction Auk's egg Auks blotches bones bought British Birds Bullétin Cambridge circa Clungunford collection Copenhagen Courtesy dealer divers représentants East Sussex East Sussex Naturalist Edinburgh Field Naturalists EGG Egg Eldey England Existing Remains Fatio France Funk Island Garefowl Geirfuglasker George Dawson George Dawson Rowley Geschichte der Ueberreste Grand Pingouin Hahn Hastings and East Ibis Iceland impennis en Europe Japetus Steenstrup Jourdain Journal für Ornithologie known Liste des divers London Magazine of Natural Microscopical Society Newfoundland nineteenth century Ootheca Ootheca Wolleyana Papa Westray Parkin Paul Hahn Penguin perhaps Photograph probably pt.6 extra paper Razorbill record représentants de l'Alca Robert Champley Rothschild Rowland Ward Skins and Eggs Société Ornithologique Suisse sold species specimen Spink St Kilda Stevens stuffed bird summer plumage Origin Symington Grieve taxidermist Tomkinson Transactions Tring Ueberreste von Alca unknown Colour Vanished Bird Vivian Hewitt Wilhelm Blasius Wolley's Zoologist