STERCORARIUS POMATORHINUS. OAT 
brother in communication with his former correspondent, from whom we had 
in successive years a good many eggs, not only of this species but those of other 
birds (§§ 75-79, 1958, 1962, 2185, 2186, and 2796). I did not know, till I 
received Mr. Wolley’s egg-books, that it was Mr. Tuke who originated the 
connexion with Mr. Smith (§ 4675). I believe that the latter acted with 
Mr. Idmondston’s sanction (§ 4675), and as the birds themselves were not 
allowed to be destroyed, the taking of their eggs to a reasonable extent in no 
way diminished their numbers. The last time I visited Unst (1898) I not only 
saw many Bonxies, but was told, and can well believe, that there were more on 
Hermaness than had been known within memory. | 
STERCORARIUS POMATORHINUS (‘Temminck). 
§ 4688. Oxe.—North Greenland. From Dr. Rudolph, through 
Herr Conradsen, 1857. 
Presented to me at Copenhagen in Cetober, 1857, by the Conser- 
vator Conradsen. Dr. Rudolph is living in the north of Greenland, 
and the eggs probably arrived this year, as he has not been long 
out. 
[§ 4689. Oxe—Godhavn, North Greenland, 1857. From 
HH. Theobald and Erichsen, 1869. 
Pastor Theobald wrote that this was received direct by Herr Erichsen, and 
he thought its genuineness could not be disputed. | 
[§ 4690. One.—Great Tundra, Taimyr Peninsula, 1843. 
From Dr. von Middendorff, through Dr. Baldamus, 
1861. 
Proc. Zool, Soe. 186], p. 401, pl. xxxix. fig. 3. 
This is another of the treasures which I obtained from Dr. Raldamus, and 
exhibited at a meeting of the Zoological Society, 10 December, 1861, it being 
afterwards figured in the ‘ Proceedings’ of the same (ué supra). It was sent 
to the Doctor by Herr von Middendorff, who states (Sib. Reise, II. ii. p. 240) 
that the species breeds in especial abundance on the tundra adjoining the 
the river Taimyr. He saw it first on the 6th of June, and on the 7th of July, 
in lat. 74° N., found the first ezgs—two, lying on the moor, without any nest, 
He figures one in his work (Taf. xxiv. fig. 1), Beyond 743° he did not see a 
bird of this species. | 
