584 Mr. A. Trevor-Battye on the 



field-naturalist as Mr. Lamont was little likely to confuse 

 Bernicles with Brents, especially since he expressly states 

 that there were large flocks o£ both species round his pond. 



Lieut. Stjemspetz informed Mr. A. H. Cocks that " the 

 members of the Swedish Geological Expedition [of 1882] 

 had shot two adult birds of this species in Bell Sound, and 

 had taken three young ones alive " [ibid. 1884, p. 16). 



To this I may repeat that by a curious chance the first bird 

 I saw on the land was a Bernicle Goose. This was on June I8th 

 at Point Staraschin. E. J. Garwood, H. E. Conway, and 

 I were being pulled ashore, and when within forty yards 

 of our landing-place a Bernicle Goose suddenly appeared 

 standing on a ridge of snow on the edge of the clifi^, which 

 is here some eight feet in height. While I was snatching 

 up and loading my gun it took wing, and, firing a long shot 

 at it, I missed. On June 30th I came upon seven in the 

 marshes at the head of Advent Bay. On that day 

 Dr. Gregory and I were engaged with sleighs conveying 

 provisions up that valley to a point where Sir Martin 

 Conway was encamped. The nature of the ground made it 

 unwise to leave the ponies for more than a moment or two, 

 so I only had a hurried try for these birds, which I'ose wildly 

 out of shot. Later on I saw a party of nine Bernicles flying 

 low over the ice of Advent Bay *. 



Skipper Svendsen, owner of the walrus " jagt " ' Jasai,' 

 of Trano, with whom I visited the island, mentioned before, 

 has a very quick eye for the difierences in birds. He is 

 engaged with his brother in white-whale and shark -catching, 

 and his words most curiously recalled an account which I 

 remember to have read (but cannot now find) of a Norwe- 

 gian skipper who described " White-winged Geese '"' in Bell 

 Sound. Svendsen spoke of them as " White-winged," 

 sometimes as '^ White- faced '' Geese, and said that he saw 

 them every year when he first came up, and that in the 

 spring of 1895 there were about 300 in a lot in Bell Sound, but 

 that he had never been able to find the nest of this species. 



* [Mr. Pike mentions six Bernicle Geese at Stor Fjord on May 30th. — 

 Edd.] 



