S.Guruvayurappan
wingless auk alca impennis
Extinct species. The wingless auk, Alca impennis, a bird remarkable for its excessive fatness, was very abundant two or three hundred years ago in the Faroe Islands, and on the whole Scandinavian seaboard. The early voyagers found either the same or a closely Allied species, in immense numbers, on all the coasts and islands of Newfoundland. The value of its flesh and its oil made of one of the most important resources of the inhabitants of those sterile regions, and it was naturally an object of keen pursuit. It is supposed to be now completely extinct, and few museums can show even its skeleton.
wingless auk alca impennis
Extinct species. The wingless auk, Alca impennis, a bird remarkable for its excessive fatness, was very abundant two or three hundred years ago in the Faroe Islands, and on the whole Scandinavian seaboard. The early voyagers found either the same or a closely Allied species, in immense numbers, on all the coasts and islands of Newfoundland. The value of its flesh and its oil made of one of the most important resources of the inhabitants of those sterile regions, and it was naturally an object of keen pursuit. It is supposed to be now completely extinct, and few museums can show even its skeleton.