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east Dr ISTansen observed this bird in the summer of 1895, 

 and in the autumn at Frederick Jackson Island, where it was 

 busily engaged chasing the Kittiwakes. He also saw it at 

 the same island in the spring of 1896. 



[On the 15th of April 1897, Mr Wilton saw the first 

 Skua. It is not uninteresting to note that it was only on 

 the day before, and on this day, that the Kittiwakes arrived. 



Several pairs of Arctic Skuas were nesting about Cape 

 Flora. We found the first nest, containing eggs, on the 

 27th of June, and on the 3rd of July another was found 

 with eggs. The birds played antics when their nests were 

 approached, pretending to be maimed in some way, and trying 

 to lure one after them. The Skuas also swooped down upon 

 our dogs when they were near the nests. 



I saw the Pomatorhine Skua (Stercorariits j^omatorhinus) 

 on the voyage out and home, but not actually on Franz 

 Josef Land, though we shot it before we were out of the ice. 

 — W. S. B.] 



18. *Uria mandti, Licht. 



Uria mandti and Grylle columha, Payer, op. cit., ii. p. 91. 

 Uria grylle, Feilden, t. c, p. 209 ; Neale, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1882, pp. 652, 

 653 ; Nansen, op. cit., ii. pp. 199, 410. 



Mr Bruce brought back with him a number of specimens 

 of this Black Guillemot, or Dovekie, in both adult and first 

 plumages. This bird bred, Mr Bruce tells me, in some 

 numbers at Cape Flora, along with the still more numerous 

 Little Auk. 



According to Dr Neale, a considerable number of Dovekies 

 breed at the head of Gray Bay, and a good number at Cape 

 Stephen, at Bell Island, and at Cape Flora. The bird came 

 under Dr Nansen's notice at the end of May 1895, on the 

 ice far to the north-east of Franz Josef Land ; but he does 

 not again allude to it until the spring of 1896, when he 

 (p. 410) mentions its arrival on the 10th of March, and 

 alludes to its movements from the land to the sea at certain 

 times of the day, in company with the Little Auk. Dr Neale 

 states that the Black Guillemot departed from Cape Flora 

 during the first week of September 1881, and returned to 

 its old haunts on the 18th of February 1882. 



