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Prof. S. F. Baird on the Distribution and 



Of the sixty-nine species of the above list, all but nineteen 

 occurred in Great Britain and Iceland. 



List of Birds supposed to 

 America, or not 



be identical in Europe and North 

 satisfactorily separated. 



I have omitted the strictly Pelagic or ocean-wandering birds 

 and those belonging to both coasts of the North Atlantic. 



No North American birds have yet been found in Spitsber- 

 gen ; indeed there are there but about twenty-six species in all, 

 according to Malmgren. The only land-birds recorded are Falco 

 gyrfalco, Nyctea nivea, Plectrophanes nivalis, and Lagopus, var. 

 hyperboreus. Of the birds of Jan Mayen^s Land, which lies in 

 a direct line between Iceland and Spitzbergen, and nearer to 



