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birds that Mr. Rickett has sent me. It is Procellaria mono- 

 rhis (Swinhoe) (Ibis^ 1867^ p. 386) ^ of which hardly any 

 specimens are in our collections. The type is in the British 

 Museum^ and^ aided by Mr. Salvin, I have compared the 

 skin sent by Mr. Rickett with it. The measurements of 

 the latter are worth recording : — Skin, date July 1892 ; 

 sex not recorded. Total length 8*1 inches^ culmen "53; wing 

 6'5, tail 3' 15 (central feathers 2'5), tarsus "95. — H. H. S.] 



' Phalacrocorax pelagicus, Pall. 

 I obtained three specimens, shot by a fisherman outside 

 the river in January. He states they are not uncommon at 

 times. 



[In addition Mr. Rickett has sent me a Grebe's skin in 

 winter dress, correctly labelled P. holboelli-=griseigena. — 

 H. H. S.] 



XV. — On a Birds^ -nesting Excursion to the North of Nor tv ay 

 in 1893. By Henry J. Pearson and Edward Bidwell. 



A SHORT account of a nesting-trip to the North of Norway 

 made this summer may be of interest to the members of the 

 B. O. U., and we therefore send a few particulars. We left 

 Bergen early on the morning of June 2nd, accompanied by 

 Mr. Charles Pearson. The mail steamer on which we tra- 

 velled kept inside the islands and up many of the fjords, 

 but from its deck we saw few birds of interest. The 

 Common Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls were 

 frequently observed. Greater Black-backed Gulls were 

 fairly numerous. Oyster-catchers were feeding on many of 

 the small islands, and Black Guillemots were generally in 

 view. Eiders (now protected by special legislation) were in 

 numbers round every small village, though rarely seen far 

 away from human habitation. A few Red-breasted Mer- 

 gansers and Grey Lag-Geese were observed, and in Raauen- 

 fjord we had a good view of an Eagle. We reached Bodo 

 at midnight on June 6th, and, as the steamer was timed to 

 stay four hours, we landed and walked to a small wood at 

 the back of the town. Here we were fortunate in seeing 



