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he was attaclied as official naturalist on board H.M.S. 

 ' Alert.' The results of his valuable labours on this 

 occasion were duly recorded on the publication of Nares' 

 second edition of the ' Narrative of the Voyage to the Polar 

 Sea' (1878), Feilden being responsible for the sections on 

 Ethnology, Mamiualia, and Ornithology, and jointly with 

 de Ranee for that on Geology. The chief ornithological 

 event of the expedition was the finding by Feilden of the 

 nestlings of the Knot {Trii)ga canatn.s), the eggs of which 

 bird Avere, however, not discovered till some 25 years after- 

 wards, when they were sent back to Europe by Walter and 

 Birulia in the course of the Russian Polar Expedition, 

 1900-1903. Besides this voyage to the Arctic, Feilden at 

 various times visited the Freroe Islands (" Birds of the 

 Fseroe Islands,'^ Zoologist, 1872, pp. 3210, 3245, 3277), 

 Iceland, Spitzbergen, Novaya Zeniiya (' Beyond Petsora 

 Eastward,' by 11. J. Pearson, with appendices on the 

 Botany and Geology by II. W. Feilden), the result of 

 his observations on these various journeys also appearing 

 in numerous papers contributed to 'The Ibis,' 'Zoologist,' 

 and other journals. 



Much of his work as regards the ornithology of his native 

 country was carried out in conjunction with his friend, the 

 late J. A. Harvie-Brown : together they visited the mainland 

 and isles of Scotland * and together they formed the 

 valuable series of skins which, with the collection of eggs 

 and specimens brought home by Feilden from his various 

 expeditions, was destroyed in the disastrous fire at Harvie- 

 Brown's mansion of Dunipace, Stirlingshire, in 1897. In 

 1880 Feilden settled for a time at "West House, Wells, 

 Norfolk, and while resident there became a member of the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, and President 

 of that body in 1885. In 1901 he inherited from his 

 uncle, Mr. Leyland Feilden, the fine Elizabethan house of 



* For tlie account of Feildeu's finding tlie eggs of tlie Dotterel 

 {Churadrius morinellus), see llurvie-Browu & Buckley, 'Fauna of 

 Moray Basin,' vol. ii. p. 172. 



