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logical plunder of the Arctic Expedition, and had the 

 pleasure of listening to his most interesting paper at 

 the Zoological Society. Both the Knot and the Sander- 

 ling were discovered breeding in lat. 82° 20', the extreme 

 northern limit of animal life, on the shores of the Polar 

 basin, a little to the west of Cape Union. They were 

 also seen in Thank-God Bay, on the Greenland coast 

 of Kennedy Channel, about lat. Sli". The young and 

 down of the Knot were obtained, but, unfortunately, no 

 eggs. The eggs of the Sanderling are of the size of 

 eggs of the Lesser Tern or Kentish Plover, and in colour 

 may be described as miniature Curlew's eggs. The Knot 

 was found feeding on the buds of a saxifrage, which grew 

 on the bare places in the snow, on its first arrival, and 

 afterwards on the larvse of Diptera. 



Having brought up our knowledge of the birds of the 

 Lower Petchora to date, and included in this Appendix a 

 short summary of the recent discoveries made by Drs. 

 Finsch and Brehm in Siberia, and by Capt. H. AV. 

 Feilden in the Arctic regions, it may not be out of 

 place here to shortly review the work accomplished, 

 and indicate the work remaining to be done in Northern 

 Russia. 



Harvie-Brown for some time past has been engaged 

 in collecting and tabulating all the records of previous 

 authors relating to the ornithology of Northern Eussia 

 north of 60° N. lat. This work, when completed, will form 

 the subject of separate papers on the distribution of the 

 birds of North Russia. It is proposed in these papers to 

 bring our knowledge of the subject up to date, and at the 

 same time, by a convenient tabular arrangement, to permit 

 of future records and additions, or necessary corrections 

 and alterations, being easily made from year to year. 



The results of his examination of these records show 

 that the north-western portion of Russia, north of 64° 30' 



