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[§ 4485. Two. ) 
| Russ6, Thousand Islands Spitsbergen 
4486. ; ; : oe 
Pee Peo 9 August, 1864, “AlN.” 
[§ 4487. Siw. J 
The yacht ‘Sultana’ having come to anchor near this island the evening 
before, I went ashore next morning with Ludwig, hoping to find a Grey 
Phalarope’s nest, but though we saw and watched what was apparently a hen 
bird sitting by the side of a little pool of water, all our efforts were unsuccessful. 
There were a quantity of Terns on the island, and walking across a dry bit of 
ground, we found some half-dozen nests, most of them containing two eggs, and 
all hard-sat on, and there were some half-grown young, one of which, after 
being handled by me and liberated, swam across the pool, a distance of about 
fifty yards, encouraged all the time by a flock of old birds, which kept succes- 
sively stooping within a few inches of it during the whole of its voyage, A 
Skua threatened it, but, seeing me prepared with my gun, let it alone. The 
islet was strewn with large blocks of stranded ice, and a vast quantity of drift 
timber. ] 
[§ 4488. Zwo.—Mouth of Porcupine River, Yukon. From 
the Smithsonian Lustitution, through Prof. Baird, 
1863. 
The label with them states that they were from Mr. Kennicott.] 
[§ 4489. Zwo.—Arctic Coast, east of Anderson River. From 
the Smithsonian Institution, through Prof. Baird, 1870. 
The label with these gives Mr. R. MacFarlane as the collector, and the 
Smithsonian number of the parent is 44558. | 
[§ 4490. Zwvo.—Moffen Island, Spitsbergen, 1873. rom 
Mr. A. E. Eaton. 
[§ 4491. One.—Treurenberg Bay (?), Spitsbergen, 1873. From 
Mr. A. E. Eaton. 
Mr. Eaton accompanied Mr. Leigh Smith in the ‘ AZolus’ to the polar 
regions, and on his return kindly let me have these eggs among others. His 
notes on this species in Spitsbergen are printed in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1874 
(pp. 8809, 8810). Beside the localities above named, he found it breeding in 
Wide and Loom Bays. } 
