578 Mr, A. Trevor-Battye on the 



1894. Col. H. W. Feilden accompanied the late Captain To wnley- Parker 

 in the s.y. ' Saide ' on a short visit to Spitsbergen in this year, and 

 wrote "A Flying Visit to Spitsbergen." Zoologist, 18f>5, pp. 81-90. 



1858, 1864, 1873. Professor Nordenskiold visited Spitsbergen in these 

 years, and in 1873 he made his famous crossing of the ice-sheet of 

 North-East Land. References to the birds of Spitsbergen will be found 

 in the first volume of the Voyage of the 'Vega.' Some of these 

 are, however, not convincing. 



The following also contain references : — 



Wolley. Catalogue of Eggs, 1856, p. 17. (Occurrence of Phalaropus 



fulicarius.) 

 Gould. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 354. (Description of Lagoims hemile^icums.') 

 Evans and Sturge. Ibis, 1859, pp. 166-174 *. 

 Torell. Bidrag till Spitsbergens Molluskfauna, &c. Stockholm, 



1859. 



I have only to add that the Rev. H. H. Slater, who had 

 collected a list of references in view of himself writing up 

 the Spitsbergen birds, placed these with ready kindness in 

 my hands on learning that I intended giving my observations 

 in ' The Ibis.' 



1. LiNOTA HORNEMANNi, HolboU. Arctic Redpollf. 



Doubts which existed at the time of the publication of 

 Prof. Newton's remarks (Ibis, 1865, p. 502) upon the identity 

 of Scoresby's Spitsbergen Redpoll (Arct. Reg. i. p. 131 & 

 p. 537) have long since been set at rest by Mr, Eaton's dis- 

 covery of this large form in some numbers at Wijde Bay in 

 1873. He says of some of the ' Diana's ' crew : — " They also 

 found a nest upon the ground containing five eggs, blue 

 spotted with reddish, which were possibly Redpoll's, but they 

 may have been Snow-Bunting's. As these were hard-set, 

 they did not bring them to me." At the same time there 

 can be little doubt of the identity of these eggs, for the 

 Snow-Bunting is the very last bird to nest upon the ground, 



* [" Notes on the Birds of Western Spitzbergen, as observed in 1855 ; " 

 an important paper, at the time. The authors brought back the bird 

 which Gould named Lagopus hemileucurus. — Edd.] 



t I have been guided to the adoption both of the specific and of 

 the popular name of this northern form of the Mealy Eedpoll by 

 Prof. Newton in the 4th ed. of Yarrell. 



