160 Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain on the [Ibis, 



number at 29, one of which is very doubtinl. A. H. Cocks 

 ('Zoologist' 1882, pp. 321, 378, & 404) treats o£ 21 species 

 observed by him, and in a later paper (op. cit. 1883, pp. 393, 

 433, 479 ; 1884, p. 13) raises the number to 33, o£ which, 

 however, 4 rest on uncertain evidence {cf. also op. cit. 1884, 

 p. 231 ; and A. Chapman, Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumber- 

 land, viii. p. 138). A. Pike contributed notes on "A Winter 

 in the 80th Degree," to Chapman's 'Wild Norway' (1897), 

 and A. Trevor Battye (Ibis, 1897, pp. 574-600) a paper on 

 "The Birds of Spitsbergen as at present determined"; 

 but only 29 species are recorded, of which only 24 were 

 met with by his party. F. RJimer and F. Schaudinn's 

 'Fauna Arctica,' 1900 (cf. also Orn. Monatsber. 1900, 

 pp. 100, 116, 136, 153, & 165), and a very useful paper by 

 Gr. Swenander, " Beitriige zur Fauna der Baren-Insel, I." 

 (1900), in which 22 species are recorded, as well as G. Kolt- 

 hoff's valuable ' Bidrag till Kaennedom om norra Polartrak- 

 ternas Diiggdjur och Faglar' (1903) should also be consulted. 

 Graf Zedlitz has also published some notes in the J. f. 0. 

 1911, pp. 300-327, on birds observed in Norway and Spits- 

 bergen. 



The first partv of the Oxford University Expedition left 

 Tromso on the night of 10 June, 1921, and reached Bear 

 Island on 13 June. Here a party remained till 23 June, 

 when the Expedition sailed for Spitsbergen, arriving at the 

 mouth of Ice Fjord on the evening of 25 June. The west 

 and north coast up to Liefde Bay aud Moffen Island were 

 then worked and a camp formed on Prince Charles Foreland 

 (20 June-10 July). The exploring party arrived at Bruce 

 City on 21 July, and on the 22nd the first party left Long-year 

 City for Tromso, which was reached on 26 July, the second 

 party not returning till September. Dr. G. J. van Oordt, of 

 Utrecht, who was staying at Cap Boheman in Ice Fjord 

 at the time of our visit, has kindly contributed some notes, 

 which are incorporated in this paper. 



