364 Messrs. W. E. Clarke afid J. liackliouse — Autumn 



TOTANUS PUGNAX, 



The distribution of the Kutf is somewhat similar to that 

 of the Redshank^ but hitherto, so far as I know, only one 

 example has been said to have occurred in Japan, viz. at 

 Hakodadi (Ibis, 1884-, p. 33). I have now to record two 

 more examples from the neighbourhood of Yokohama, a male 

 in winter plumage and a male in first plumage, obtained on 

 the 13th of October. 



Alca troile arra. 



A series of Pallas^s Guillemot from Japan and the Kurile 

 Islands appears to justify me in the conclusion that this is an 

 intermediate form between the Common Guillemot and 

 BriinnicVs Guillemot. An almost complete series of forms 

 intermediate in the length and thickness of the bill and the 

 conspicuousness of the pale base of the tipper mandible may 

 be said nearly to bridge over the distance from one to the 

 other, so that these Guillemots can scarcely be regarded as 

 more than subspecifically distinct. 



XXXIX. — An Autumn Ramble in Eastern Iceland, with 

 some Notes from the Faroes. By Wm. Eagle Clarke, 

 F.L.S., and James Backhouse, Jun. 



(Plate IX.) 



The morning of the 2nd of September, 1884, found us oti 

 board the Danish Royal Mail Boat ' Thyra,' steaming down 

 the Forth en route for Iceland, via the Faroe Islands. At 

 about 11 A.M. on the 3rd we sighted the Orkneys, and these 

 passed, a north-westerly course "was shaped, carrying us 

 south of the Shetlands, of which group only Fair Island and 

 Foul a w^ere seen from afar. The Faroes should have been 

 in sight early on the morning of the 4th, but the islands 

 were shrouded in drizzling mist, a characteristic feature in 

 the climate of the group. Numerous Fulmars sailing round 

 the vessel heralded our approach, and in due course the l)old 

 •mtliuc of Sudcroe loomed through the veil of mist, Avliilc to 



