1 04 Notes and News. \*\x* 



The region is limited, as already said, to the area north of the Arctic 

 Circle, and includes the following eleven islands and groups of Islands: 

 (1) Bear Island, with 28 species and subspecies, of which 17 breed on the 

 island. (2) Spitsbergen Archipelago, with 50, of which 25 breed, while 18 

 of the 50 are circumpolar. (3) Franz Joseph Land, 28, 16, and possibly 18, 

 of which breed, while 18 are circumpolar. (4) Nova Zembla, 49, of which 

 18 are circumpolar. (5) KoJgnew, 51, of which 42, or S4 percent, breed, 

 and 16 are circumpolar. (6) Dolgoi, 23, of which 18 are circumpolar 

 and 18 breed. (7) Waigat, with 49, of which 29 breed, and 17 are circum- 

 polar. (8) New Siberia, 50, of which 19 are circumpolar, 23 palaearctic, 

 and 8 nearctic, and 37 breed. (9) Wrangel Island, 28, of which 15 breed, 

 12 are circumpolar, 10 ' pacific-nearctic,' and 6 palaearctic. (10) Herald 

 Island, 23, of which 14 breed, 8 are circumpolar, 11 ' pacific-nearctic,' and 

 4 'Europaeo-Asiatic.' (n) Greenland, 161, of which 20 are circumpolar, 83 

 palaearctic, and 58 nearctic, with 60 that breed. Of these 56 are common 

 to both East and West Greenland ; West Greenland has 153, of which 20 

 are circumpolar, 60 nearctic, and 73 palaearctic ; East Greenland, 64, of 

 which 17 are circumpolar, 9 nearctic, and 38 palaearctic. (12) Jan Mayen, 

 52, 18 of which are circumpolar, 4 nearctic, and 30 palaearctic, and 19 

 have been found nesting. 



The ornithology of these different islands is very unequally known, 

 some, like Jan Mayen, being very well known ornithologically, while 

 others, like Dolgoi, Kolgnew, Waigat, etc., are very imperfectly known, 

 so that the statistics for some of them include some more or less doubtful 

 species. As will be seen, however, from the foregoing, in this critical 

 examination of the arctic ornis the author has brought together a vast 

 amount of exceedingly important and interesting information. — J. A. A. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Samuel W. Woodhouse, a Corresponding Fellow of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, died at his home in Philadelphia on October 23, 

 1904. Although for many years retired from active work, Dr. Wood- 

 house's early life was full of adventure and his name was prominent 

 among men of science and travel fifty years ago. 



Samuel Washington Woodhouse was born in Philadelphia, June 27, 

 1821, the son of Com. Samuel Woodhouse, U. S. N., and H. Matilda Rob- 

 erts. The family came from Northumberland, England, his grandfather 

 emigrating to America in 1776. 



Dr. Woodhouse was educated at private schools in Philadelphia and at 



