From the April 1892 edition of The Auk, quarterly journal of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.
Mr Symington Grieve of Edinburgh, in a recent letter to Capt. J. W. Collins, announces the discovery of one more egg of the Great Auk "this time in a museum kept in the tower of an English parish church".
The egg was labelled 'Penguin', and the owner of the museum was under the impression that it was the egg of one of the penguins of the southern hemisphere until he read a magazine article that the Great Auk also was known as the Penguin in the American localities that were frequented by the bird.
He had the egg examined by experts who pronounced it undoubtedly an egg of Alca impennis.
From all that can be discovered of its history it appears in all probability to have come from Newfoundland."
Frederic A. Lucas
Washington DC
USA
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