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17. CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Linn.).—Sanderling. 
Has been recorded from Amsterdam Island by Mr 
Arnold Pike in August 1888, and by Mr W. 8S. Bruce, 
August 1898. Another record is from the Bremen ‘Geo- 
graphical Society’s Expedition, August 22, 1889, off Edge 
Island. See Ibis, January 1899, p. 47. 
*18, STERNA MACRURA, Naum.—Arctic Tern. 
I need say little about a bird which is familiar to all 
ornithologists in Britain. It was met with in most parts 
of Spitsbergen visited, but it never occurred in large flocks ; 
only five or six pairs were to be seen at any one spot, indeed, 
sometimes it was met with only in twos and threes. It 
seems to be particularly well distributed. Noted at Advent 
Bay, Vogelberg Point, Hyperite Hah Sassen Bay, and off 
Prince Charles Foreland. 
*19. LARUS GLAUCUS, Fabr.—Glaucous Gull. 
Ravenous, overbearing and ubiquitous. In fact, whalers 
(who do not evidently take very enlightened views of 
municipal government) have called this bird from these 
qualities, the Burgomaster. It never appeared anywhere in 
great flocks, but it was to be seen, with its strong determined 
flight, everywhere, even twelve miles inland, both in the low 
valleys and high on the hillsides. Its impudence and greed 
are remarkable. It is fearless and omnivorous, and has a 
great fondness for other birds’ (particularly Eider Ducks’) 
eggs, and it devours any young or unprotected bird greedily. 
Its strength is great, though how it manages to lift heavy 
weights I know not. In camp one night we were dimly 
conscious of the chuckling and gurgling of some of these 
gulls near our tent, and in the morning we found that a 
reindeer head (surely equal in weight to any two of them) 
had been carried away some hundred yards. Only one good 
deed did I see this bird do. One day in Advent Bay I 
saw two Burgomasters watch an Arctic Skua, who had just 
in the ordinary course of his business compelled a Kittiwake 
to drop a fish. This little fish the Skua had caught in his 
