Avifauna of Franz Josef Land. 



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Hvidtenlandj and later still ou Frederick Jackson Island 

 in September. On the 3rd of June, 1896, he found it 

 breeding at Cape Fisher (p. 437). 



Dr. Neale only alludes to the " Molly '' as a migratory 

 bird, which remained at Cape Flora so late as the 28th of 

 October, 1881, and returned in the following spring ou the 

 24th of April ; and tells us nothing further concerning it. 



[Mr. Wilton saw the last Molly on the 6th of October, 

 1896. The first seen in 1897 was on the 7th of April. On 

 May 5th we found these birds breeding at the east end of 

 Mabel Island in abundance, on the basaltic crags. They 

 were then making a peculiar Duck-like sound, quacking in 

 quick succession. Mollies were also seen at Cape Forbes 

 by Dr. Koettlitz and myself, and probably breed there. — 

 W. S. B.] 



The subjoined tabulation affords, in a condensed form, a 

 comparison between the ornis of Spitsbergen and Novaya 

 Zemlya and that of Franz Josef Land : — 



It only remains to remark that, of the twenty-two species 

 which form the avifauna of Franz Josef Land, only ten have 

 been found breeding (though several more — probably five — 

 undoubtedly nest there) ; and that several of the birds in the 



