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2970. Two.—Hast Finmark, 1856. | 
2971. One.—Marainen, June, 1863. 
Brought to Muoniovara as a Hawk-Owl’s, but it is evidently the premature 
ege of a Lagopus, and, from the locality, Z. albus. | 
2972. Hight——Anderson River, Arctic Coast of America, 
8 June, 1863. From the Smithsonian Institution, 
through Prof. Baird, 1870. 
The label shews that these were from a nest of nine, on which the hen bird 
(no. 85914) was snared, taken by Mr. R. W. MacFarlane, who states (Proce. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p, 450) that this species was exceedingly abundant 
on the Lower Anderson River, and in the wooded country to ‘the eastward.” 
In the course of his five years’ exploration he obtained nearly five hundred 
nests and over three thousand eggs. | 
9973. Wine.-—Anderson River, 9 June, 1863. From the 
Smithsonian Institution, through Prof. Baird, 1870. 
According to the label the hen bird (no, 85911) was snared by 
Mr. MacFarlane. | 
2974. Hight.—Wilmot - Horton River, Arctic Coast of 
America, 27 June, 1863. From the Smithsonian 
Institution, through Prof. Baird, 1870. 
The label states that the cock bird was seen and heard by Mr. Macfarlane. | 
LAGOPUS HEMILEUCURUS, Gould. 
2975. One—lIce Sound, Spitsbergen, June, 1855. From 
Messrs. Edward Evans and Wilson Sturge. 
This is one of the two eggs obtained by the gentlemen above named, and 
kindly given to me, on their return from the somewhat hazardous voyage on 
which Mr. Hudleston and I saw them embark. They brought back but one 
skin (and that in very poor condition) of the bird, which at my request was 
subsequently placed in Mr. Gould’s hands, and he described it forthwith as a 
new species (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 354), which it certainly was, though it 
had before been figured in the Atlas to the work, published by the French 
