274 Mr, Wm. Eagle Clarke on the 



[Mormon arcticus) " as one of the birds "found in the 

 region between Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land .... 

 most of these occurred also on the coasts of Franz Josef 

 Laud.^^ 



It is not probable that this bird was one of the species 

 observed on the coasts of this northern archipelago. It 

 has not come under the notice of any of the explorers 

 who have since visited Franz Josef Land ; and it is, more- 

 over, a somewhat uncommon species on the west coast 

 of Novaya Zemlya, which seems to be the extreme limit of 

 the Puffin's eastern distribution in the European Polar area. 

 It is, however^ a fairly common species in Spitsbergen. 



21, *C0LYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS LinU. 



Neale, P. Z. S. 1882, pp. 653, 654. 



The Red-throated Diver has only come under the notice 

 of Dr. Neale, among all the explorers of Franz Josef Land. 

 Ptain-Geese [Colymbus septetitriunalis), he tells us, were seen 

 and shot on the cliffs 700 feet above sea-level_, presumably at 

 Cape Flora, but no nests were seen. 



It is somewhat strange that such a conspicuous, well-known, 

 and characteristic circumpolar species should have escaped 

 the notice of the other visitors to the same place, and to 

 other parts of the archipelago. 



Dr. Koettlitz informs us that three adults and a young 

 bird were seen and shot at Bell and Mabel Islands, on the 

 11th of August, 1895 ; and that they were the only Red- 

 throated Divers seen by the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition 

 in Franz Josef Land. 



22. "^FuLMARUs GLACiALis (Linn.). 



Procellaria glacialis Payer, op. cit. ii. p. 91 ; Neale, 

 P. Z. S. 1888, p. 653 ; Nanseu, op. cit. ii. pp. 244, 295, 349, 

 414, 437. 



The Fulmar Petrel seems to be widely distributed and 

 probably breeds locally over a wide area in the region. 



Dr. Nansen observed it on the 16th of June, 1895, when 

 approaching Franz Josef Land, over the ice, from the 

 north-east ; and again early in August at the Isles of 



