170 Eev. F. 0. R. Jourdain on the [Ibis, 



Tho only two birds I have been able to examine are both 

 rather short-winged (125-127 mm.). 



33. Charadrius apricarius apricarius L. Golden Plover. 



Not previously recorded eitlier from Bear Island or Spits- 

 bergen. Soon after landing at Walrus Harbour on 13 June, 

 we saw a pair, o£ which the male was shot, but the female 

 escaped. We saw no more of this species till our last 

 day on Bear Island, when I met with a pair high up in the 

 mist-covered hills near Cape Bull. The male was very 

 anxious and probably was breeding not far away. 



34. Arenaria interpres interpres (L.). Turnstone. 



On Bear Island it has been seen on two occasions: by 

 Kolthoff in 1898 and Uugo in 1899. On Spitsbergen, 

 LeRoi mentions about 9 records, and Zedlitz (J. f. 0. 1911, 

 p. 323) suggests that some pairs breed in the marsh at the 

 head of Advent Bay. Probably they breed in Ice Fjord, as 

 birds wore shot in Dickson Land and Gryps Valley and a 

 pair seen near Cape Wyk on 13 July, 1921. In Liefde Bay 

 and its islands we found Turnstones present in some numbers 

 and breeding. Between 3 July and 7 July, nineteen pairs 

 were located, and in eighteen cases one or other parent 

 watched on to incubated eggs or recently hatched young. 



35. Calidris canutus (L.). Knot. 



Once recorded ( (J, 22 August, 1889 on Berentine Island) 

 by A. Walter. 



36. Erolia alpina alpina (L.). Dunlin. 



Previous reliable records of this species are very scanty. 

 Walter saw one on Edge Land and obtained another on 

 Kino- Ludwig Isles in 1889. A wing picked up by Feilden 

 in 1894 at Green Harbour probably belonged to a Dunlin, 

 and on 15 June, 1908, Le Roi shot a female at Advent Bay. 

 In 1921 two were seen and one female shot on the Edin- 

 burgh (Foreland) Isles on 29 June, and H. L. Powell saw 

 three others. In Sassen Valley on 17 July about five pairs 

 were met with ; the males were flying anxiously round and 



