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being but three eggs I left it, till, going with Mr.Wolley on the 19th, he caught 

 her as I pulled up the surrounding stones ; and, having satisfied ourselves as 

 to her identity, we let her go. The nest was not much more than one hundred 

 and fifty yards from that which he found ou the 8th (§ 2407).] 



[§ 2414. 0/^e.— Kyrkjiivogr, 23 June, 1858. 



From a nest containing four or five half-growu young, found by me after 

 watching the old birds.] 



[§ 2415. One. — Greenland. From Dr. David Walker, R.N., 

 Naturalist to the ' Fox,' R.Y.S., 1860. 



Like the two from Greenland already mentioned (§ 2405), decidedly larger 

 than Old-World examples.] 



[^2416. Five. — Quaenanger-fjeld, South-western Finmark, 

 20 June, 1863. 



From two nests, containing ten eggs in all, found by Turi Aslagsen. The 

 remainder were sold at Mr. Stevens's, 19th May, 1864, and bought by 

 Messrs. Bouuton, Rowley, and Pinckney.] 



[^ 2417. Four. — Alken-horn, Safe Haven, Spitsbergen, 9 July, 

 1864. "A.N." 



O. W. tab. M. 



The morning after our arrival in Safe Haven, accompanied by Ludwig (who 

 had joined me the day before we left England), I landed, with two others of 

 our party, on the low ground near the point where the evening before we 

 had seen some Grey Geese, and I was anxious to obtain one and determine 

 the species to which they belonged. Sending Ludwig along the shore in the 

 hope of his finding a nest, I kept the middle ground, while my other com- 

 panions essayed to ascend the stupendous clift" which in one part shoots up 

 into a grand peak, forming what our pilot called the Alken-horn '. As I 

 proceeded I saw several cock Snow-Buntings, the hens being presumably 

 sitting ; but some hours later when we had all forgathered, I saw one, which 

 I had before noticed as certainly having a nest close by, go into the cleft of a 



^ [I have elsewhere attempted a description of this magnificent peak and the 

 surrounding scenery (Ibis, 1865, pp. 202-204), which need not be repeated here. 

 Some idea of it may perhaps be formed from the reproduction (Plate M) of a sketch 

 I made at the time ; but the actual site of this nest and that mentioned in the next 

 section is concealed from view by the intervening glacier. I understand that the 

 peak is now known by some other name. — Ed.] 



