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no rule without exceptions, and were I to go to Spitsbergen 

 again and had no opportunity of working Stor Fjord, I 

 should confine myself during the best part of the breeding, 

 season to two districts. First I should work Van Mijen's 

 Bay and Van Keulen Bay, and then I should run right up 

 north and work Liefde Bay. Van Mijen^s Bay is, from 

 natural circumstances, a very favourable bird-ground, and 

 Liefde Bay is filled with islands and has never been worked, 

 so far as 1 know. In Van Mijen's Bay the Bernicle Goose 

 probably nests, and in Liefde Bay I should expect to find 

 the nest of the King-Eider. 



Since the publication of Professor Newton^s paper (Ibis, 

 1865, pp. 199-219 and pp. 496-525) several voyages have 

 been made to Spitsbergen, and the results of these are incor- 

 porated where necessary in this list. I say advisedly "where 

 necessary," for while I have not to repeat references to 

 abundant species, I have been at the pains to read carefully 

 all that has been written, to give the records of rarer forms, 

 and to quote any testimony on doubtful points. 



The following is a list of accounts referred to : — 



1870. In the summer of this year Th. von Heuglin and Count Zeil 

 explored East Spitsbergen : — ' Reisen nach dera Nordpolavraeer in den 

 Jahren 1870 und 1871 von M. Th. Heuglin,' (3 vols.) Braunschweig, 

 1874. 



1873. Mr. Benjamin Leigh Smith, on his third Arctic voyage, was 

 accompanied, in the steam-yacht 'Diana,' by the Eev. A. E. Eaton, 

 Mr. T. B. Potter, and Lieut. H. C. Chermside. Mr. Eaton was naturalist 

 to the party, and his paper is entitled " Notes on the Fauna of Spits- 

 bergen." Zoologist, s. s. p. 3762 and pp. 3805-3822. 



1881. In this summer Mr. A. H. Cocks and Mr. Abel Chapman went on 

 the ' Pallas ' to the West Coast of Spitsbergen. Mr. Cocks's interesting 

 account bears the title " Notes of a Naturalist on the West Coast of 

 Spitsbergen." Zoologist, 1882 *. 



1882. In the autumn of this year Mr. Cocks again visited Spitsbergen on 

 a walrus " jagt," chartered by himself and M. Charles Rabot. They 

 left Tromso on Aug. 26th, and returned on Oct. 7th of that year. The 

 trip is described as " An Autumn Visit to Spitsbergen." Zoologist, 

 1883. 



* pSIr. Abel Chapman also wrote an account of this visit. Nat. Hist. 

 Tr. Northumb. viii. pp. 138-158,— Edd.] 



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