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of Fort Conger^ latitude 81° 44' N. The egg was 1-1 inch 

 in the longer axis and 1 inch in the shorter. Colour light 

 pea-green, closely spotted with brown in small specks about 

 the size of a pin-head/'' It will be remembered that Major 

 H. W. Feilden, the naturalist to H.M.S. 'Alert/ obtained 

 the three nestlings now in the British Museum of Natural 

 History, but the eggs eluded his research. Even now it is 

 by no means clear that any identified specimens have been 

 brought back ; and if not, we are no better off than we were in 

 the days of Parry, more than sixty years ago, for that the eggs 

 were then obtained there can be no reasonable doubt. They 

 were even described, after a fashion : some were probably 

 brought home ; but the question still is. Where is a genuine 

 Knot's egg to be seen ? — and Echo makes her proverbial 

 answer. 



113. Blomefield ' Reminiscences of Yarrell/ 



[Reminiscences of William Yarrell. By Leonard Blomelield (late 

 Jenyns). 8vo. Batli: 1885. (For private circulation.)] 



Of the many who are acquainted with the works of the 

 Rev. Leonard Jenyns, and are accustomed to look upon his 

 ' Manual of British Vertebrate Animals ' as a classic, compa- 

 ratively few are aware that under the name of Blomefield we 

 have still the pleasure of counting him among the four or 

 five surviving original members of the Zoological Society. 

 In the present pamphlet he has given us a slight but pleasant 

 sketch of Yarrell, with whom he was intimately acquainted 

 for nearly thirty years, and in whose company he made many 

 excursions. One of the best of his reminiscences is that of 

 the shepherd-boy whom the two friends found on the downs 

 above Eastbourne, and who imagined that the sole purpose 

 for which Parliament met was to determine the exact day 

 when Wheatear-catching should begin ! 



114. British Association's Report on Migration in 1884. 



[Report on the Migration of Birds in tlie Spring and Autiniin of 1884. 

 By Mr. J. A. llarvie-Brown, Mr. Cordeaiix, Mr. R. M. Barrington. Mr. 

 A. G. More, and Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, 8vo. London : 1885.] 



