106 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



[On the 22nd of October several Dovekies were seen, and 

 two of them shot by Mr Armitage ; these were the last of 

 their kind seen in the autumn of 1896. On the 4tli of 

 March 1897, Mr Wilton saw the first Dovekie of the season. 

 On the 17th the bird was seen in numbers at the Windy 

 Gully Eocks. 



The note of the Dovekie while flying is extremely delicate 

 and beautiful — a kind of soft chirping. It is very distinctive, 

 and one could easily tell whether the birds were about with- 

 out seeing them. 



The Windy Gully Eocks form a breeding-place of the 

 Dovekies, and there they are dispersed among their more 

 numerous friends, the Eotges. This species was much less 

 abundant than the Loom. — W. S. B.] 



19. *Uria bruennichi (E. Sabine). 



Uria arra, Payer, op. ciL, ii. p. 91. 

 Alca arra, Feilden, t. c, p. 209. 



Uria bruennichi, Neale, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1882, pp. 652, 653 ; Nanser, 

 op. cit., ii. p. 244. 



In the collection are three adults in summer plumage, 

 two obtained on the 13th of April 1896 and one on the 

 27th of April 1897 ; three young in down, taken on the 

 11th and 24th of August 1894 ; and a chick on the 27th of 

 July 1897~all from Cape Flora. 



Though common enough in the south, there is no informa- 

 tion regarding the bird elsewhere in Franz Josef Land. 



Dr Neale mentions that there are large "loomeries" at 

 Cape Growth er. Cape Grant, Cape Stephen, Bell Island, and 

 Cape Flora, and that a few breed at Cape Forbes. He found 

 eggs, laid on the bare rock, on the 26th of June 1882. 

 From the "loomery " at Cape Flora 1660 of these Guillemots 

 were shot in September 1881 by Mr Leigh Smith's party for 

 winter stores. Dr ISTeale notes that it became very scarce at 

 Cape Flora after the 10th of September 1881. It arrived 

 there, according to the same authority, on the 9th of March 

 in the spring of 1882. 



Dr Nansen only once mentions Brunnich's Guillemot, 

 namely, on the 16th of June 1895, when he shot a single 



