1922.] Birds of Spitshergeti and Bear Island. IGl 



List of Species recorded from Bear Island and 

 Spitsbergen. 



[Corvus corax L. Raven. One reported in summer 

 1874 by sailors o£ Mr. A. (*anipbell's party (Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 272).] 



1. Corvus cornix L. Hooded Crow. 



Dr. Bunge saw a Hooded (^row on 16 May, 1900, ;it Goose 

 Bay in Horn Sound. Tobiesen also reports two Crows on 

 Bear Island on :30 March and 20 May, 186G. A Crow (sp. ?) 

 was also seen at Bell Sound by a member of Nathorst's 

 Expedition. 



2. Corvus (frugilegus L.?). Rook. 



Dr. Bunne s;iw in Horn Sound a black Corvus on 16 and 

 17 May, 1900 (as well as C. cornix) which he supposed to 

 be C. corone, but as Bianclii suggests, it was more probably 

 C. frugilegus. 



[Martens (1675) records Black Crows as seen in Spits- 

 bergen, but whether this refers to straggling Ravens, Crows, 

 or possibly Rooks is quite uncertain.] 



3. Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris L. Starling. 



Koenig's party discovered the remains of a Starling on the 

 north coast of Bear Island (Ilerwig Harbour) on l-l July, 

 1907. 



4. Carduelis hornemanni (Holb.). Hornemann's Redpoll. 

 Scoresby in 1820 includes ^^ Fringilla linaria'''' as met with 



at sea about 10 nnles from land. Several were taken alive. 

 In 1874, A. E. Eaton records one as alighting on the ship on 

 27 May, 1873, in lat. 75° 13' N. and another as shot in 

 Wijde Bay, while the crew saw 5 or 6 others and found a 

 nest with eggs, possibly of this species. No later records. 

 The skin is in the Cambridge University Museum. 



5. Loxia curvirostra L. Crossbill. 



A small flock (perhaps a family party) met with on Boar 

 Island on 25 July, 1868, and two specimens were obtained 

 by Malmgren. 



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