Recently published Ornitholoyical Works. 4G7 



ignoriiig the very exhaustive descriptious given by Shaipe 

 (/. c.) of the adult male and of tlie t/onny female of the same. 



79. Na)isen's 'Farthest North.' 



[Fridtjof Xanseu's ' Farthest Nortli,' beiug the Record uf a Voyage 

 of Exploration of the Ship ' Fram,' 189-3-9G, aud of a fifteen mouths' 

 sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, with an Appendix 

 by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the 'Fram,' about one hundred and twenty 

 full-page aud numerous text illustrations, sixteen coloured plates in 

 facsimile from Dr. Nansen's own sketches, etched portrait, photogravures, 

 and maps. 2 vols. Koyal 8vo. A. Constable & Co. : Westminster, 

 1897.] 



It would be foreign to our subject to go into the general 

 contents of Dr. Nanseu^s attractive but somewhat bulky 

 volumes, -which arc, no doubt, already familiar to most of 

 ns. But the Editors must say something about the birds 

 which are mentioned in the second volume. It is interesting 

 to note the species Avhich Dr. Nansen and his companion 

 observed during their struggle back from their point farthest 

 north to Franz Josefs Land. On May 29th they met with 

 their first bird in about 8.2° 80' N.L. It was a Fulmar 

 (Fuhnarus glacialis). The following day a Black Guillemot 

 {Uria grijlle) appeared. On June 1st they "heard the angry 

 cry of an Ivory Gull {Payophila eburiiea) and two of these 

 birds were seen sailing over their heads, while the hoarse 

 scream of another Gull, probably Lurus uryentutus, was also 

 noticed." On June 5th more Gulls were seen and an Ivory 

 Gull was shot, while next day (8.2° 17' N.L.) a Sandpiper 

 was seen, but not obtained. By June 11th the Gulls had 

 conspicuously increased in number, and a Little Auk 

 {Mergulas alle) had been observed in a lane of water. On 

 June IGth the first Briiunich^s Guillemot [Lomvia bnten- 

 nichi) was shot, and with a couple of Fulmars served to eke 

 out the meagre rations of the two travellers. 



On July 15th, as the explorers were at work at their 

 kayaks, a Boss's Gull (Rhudostethia rosea) came flying by. 

 It was apparently an adult bird, and a second adult, with a 

 black ring round its neck, was observed four days afterwards. 

 On approaching Hvidten-land, as we have already recorded 



