262 Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke on the 



recorded for Waigats by Heuglin {' Reisen nach dem Nord- 

 polarmeer/ dritter Theil, S. 118) ; but there is no record of 

 its occurrence in Novaya Zemlya. It has occurred in 

 Spitsbergen, but does not breed there. 



12. *Sterna macruka Naum. 



Payer, op. cit. ii. p. 91; Neale, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 654; 

 Nansen, op. cit. ii. p. 295. 



Mr. Bruce has adults, male and female, of the Arctic Tern, 

 shot at Cape Flora, out of a party of four which appeared 

 there on the 24th of June, 1897. 



Although this species is undoubtedly a summer visitor to 

 Franz Josef Land, yet there appears to be no information 

 regarding its breeding; nor do we know much concerning it 

 as a bird of the archipelago. Dr. Neale merely includes 

 the Arctic Tern in his list of birds observed in the south 

 during Mr. Leigh Smith's second visit, but without remark. 

 Dr. Nansen only once mentions this bird in his diary, 

 namely on the 8th of August, 1895, when two " Terns " 

 were seen off the Isles of Hvidtenland. The Arctic Tern in 

 all probability nests in Franz Josef Land, but it has not 

 yet been found breeding by any of the explorers of the 

 archipelago. 



[On the 6th of August, 1896, I saw a pair of Terns at the 

 end of Windy Gully, Cape Flora ; and on the 24th of June, 

 1897, I saw two pairs of Arctic Terns at the west end of 

 Cape Flora. Mr. Jackson shot a pair of these later in the 

 day, a male and a female. These were the only occasions on 

 which I saw Terns in Franz Josef Land. I saw a pair when 

 off the east of Spitsbergen. — W. S. B.] 



13. Rhodostethia rosea Macgil. 



Payer, op. cit. i. p. 285, ii. p. 91 ; Nansen, op. cit. ii. 

 pp. 270, 272, 282, 283, 295, 297, 298. 



When the Austrian explorers in the 'Tegetthof were 

 drifting in the ice south of Franz Josef Land in the latter 

 part of the summer of 1873, they were fortunate enough to 

 obtain a specimen of the rare Ross's Gull. This fact led orni- 

 thologists to surmise that in these new Arctic lands was to 



