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I was back at Cape Boheman, where I remained watching and 

 collecting for about a month. On Aug. 15 I paid a short visit to 

 the eastern coast of Advent Bay (Hjort-havn). 



With two Swedish geologists, Dr. Einar Wiren and Cand. phil. 

 C. Samuelsson, from the Ned. Spitsbergen Cie, I intended to make 

 a trip along the coasts of Icefjord in August. Owing to the lack 

 of a motorboat, we could not start before Aug. 24. Then we visited 

 Ekman, Dickson, Klaas Billen and Sassen Bay respectively. A heavy 

 eastern gale drove us out of Sassen Bay on Aug. 29, before we had 

 landed and so we were back at Cape Boheman that very same night. 



We now soon went to Green Harbour, where I could make but 

 a few small trips, as we started for Norway as s»on as possible, 

 winter not being far off in Spitsbergen. High sea prevented me 

 from seeing much in the Arctic Ocean. On Sept. 10 we landed at 

 Hammerfest — „the most northern town of the world" — and 

 went home via Tromso, where we stayed some days, and then 

 from Narvik with the Lapland-express through Sweden. This journey 

 can be recommended for its beautiful views. In Lapland I remained 

 one day at Abisko, to see something of this remarkable country, 

 and in the middle of Sweden I visited the village of Bispgarden to 

 get an impression of the Swedish fir-districts. Upsala and Stock- 

 holm were of course ornithologically of Uttle importance. However, 

 one should not omit to visit „Biologiske Museet" in Stockholm, 

 where a group of extremely well-stuffed animals gives a good im- 

 pression of the Scandinavian Mammals and Birds. In Skansen, the 

 open air-museum, I was again struck by the fact, how little birds 

 living in captivity resemble those living in a wild state. Specimens, 

 well-stuffed, are ever so much finer! 



from the above it follows that I have been near Cape Boheman 

 the greater part of this summer. This is the reason, why the fol- 

 lowing notes give more particulars about the Tundra-birds than 

 about the birds living in colonies on precipitous cliffs. 



I will treat the literature dealing with Spitsbergen's Avifauna 

 only in short, for le Roi gives in Koenig's Avifauna Spitsbergensis 

 besides an elaborate list of literature till 1911, a complete survey 

 of the birds, observed hitherto in Spitsbergen. This standard work 

 is the best and most extensive work on Spitsbergen birds. I could 

 consult only the special part made by le Roi, which gives distri- 

 bution, biology, oological particulars, food etc. of each species. For 

 many details I must refer to this excellent work. 



