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four crossings of the North Sea ; and numbers of sph'ited 

 vignettes of birds^ from the author's pencil, are scattered 

 through the book. Lastly, we owe to Mr. Chapman the 

 extracts from the Journal of Mr. Arnold Pike, who remained 

 in Spitsbergen from August 21st, 1888, to June 8th, 1889. 

 Snowy Owls were seen there on October 5th and 14th, and 

 for the last time on November 2nd, until spring. Mandt's 

 Guillemots were seen, and Eiders and Briinnich's Guillemots 

 were heard, as early as January 11th; Fulmars made their 

 appearance by February 20th ; the first Ivory Gull on March 

 15th; on March 23rd the Snowy Owl had begun to prey 

 on "ryper'^ [Layopus hemileiicurus) ; while Glaucous Gulls 

 came on the 26th, and Little Auks on the 28th of March. A 

 Sanderling {Calidris arenaria) was shot on Amsterdam Island 

 on August 2 1st, 1888, and Mr. Chapman has the skin \_supra 

 p. 591J. 



93. Finn on the Cotton-Teal (Nettapus). 



[Note on the Gait of the Cotton-Teal, with exhibition of living speci- 

 mens. By F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S. Proc. A. S. Beng., April 1897.] 



The writer undoubtedly show^s that, contrary to what 

 prior authorities have stated, Cotton-Teal can walk, but 

 it cannot be said that they walk so freely as many other 

 of the Anatidse. Mr. Finn has kindly sent some living 

 specimens of Nettapus coromandelianus to the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens, so those who are interested in the 

 question can judge for themselves. 



94. Flower on Natural History as a Vocation. 



[Natural History as a Vocation. By Sir William II. Flower, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S. Chambers's Journ. xiv. p. 225, 1897.] 



Sir William Flower's short article on the question of 

 taking up Natural History as a " vocation " will, we are 

 sure, be read with profit by everyone who has to consider 

 this important subject. As the "regular occupation of one 

 Avho has no other means of living," Natural History is, as 

 Sir William puts it, about the worst paid profession in the 

 world. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that matters 



