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unstinted facilities for travel given me by Admiral Sir 

 George Nares^ and the co-operation of my brother oflEicers 

 in the British Expedition of 1875-76, We find at least 

 eighteen species of birds reaching the most northern lands 

 of our globe : — 



Nyctea scandiaca, breeding. 



Plectrophanes nivalis, breeding. 



Lagopus rupestris, „ 



Sf.repsilas interpres, „ 



Calidris arenaria, „ 



Fhalaropus fulicarius, apparently breeding. 



Tringa canutus, breeding. 



interna macrura, „ 



Stercorarius Imigicaudatus, breeding. 



Fagophila eburnea, apparently a straggler. 



Larus glauctis, „ 



Uria grylle, „ 



Procellaria glacialis, „ 



Colymbus septentrionalis, „ 



Marelda glacialis, breeding. 



Somateria mollissitna, breeding (^de Markham and Aldrich). 



Somateria spectabilis, „ 



Bernicla brenta, „ 



Yours &c.. 

 May 20th, 1908. H. W. Feilden. 



Sirs, — Will you allow me to point out to you that your 

 note (above, p. 201) " On a new Egyptian Bird " is not 

 quite correct? I did not obtain an example of Saxicola 

 melanura, as you have stated, but saw one during the 

 autumnal migration of 1907. 



I know this bird well in a wild state, having met with it 

 at Aden. The example in question was sitting on a fence, 

 within a few feet of me, in the Giza Zoological Gardens. 



Yours &c., 

 10 Charles Road, MiCHAEL J. NiCOLL. 



St. Leonard's-on-Sea, 

 30th May, 1908. 



