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



been found on tbe east side, and breeds on King Ludwig 

 Isles (Koenig) and King Cbarles Land. 



Tliis form was separated by Iredale (Bull. B. 0. C, xlii. 

 1921, p. 8) from the typical race, described from Hudson Bay, 

 on account of the decidedly paler coloration of the edgings 

 of the feathers of the back, scapulars, and tertials^ which are 

 warm cinnamon in the American bird and pule creamy in 

 Spitsbergen specimens. Tliis is most apparent in the females. 

 Meinertzhngen has attempted to show that this difference is 

 due to bleaching, and unfortunately at the time we had 

 no European May-killed specimens to compare ^Yith those 

 shot on the American sea-board at this time; but specimens 

 recently received, shot at Hudson Bay, in July show the 

 characters of the American race and are readily distin- 

 guishable from Spitsbergen birds killed at the same time, 

 while a bird from Devonshire (14 May, 1908) is very 

 noticeably paler than the American birds. 



40. Phalaropus lol)atus (L.). Red-necked Phalarope. 

 Only three records : a male on 23 June, 1900, at Coal 



Bay (Kolthoff) and a pair in the delta of Advent River, 

 29-30 June, 1907 (Koenig). The latter were apparently 

 breeding. 



41. Numenms phsBopus (L.). Whimbrel. 



A dead bird recorded from Bear Island in June 1898 

 (Romer & Scliaudinn), In Spitsbergen a dead specimen was 

 picked up in Bell Sound in 1881 ; another was obtained by 

 a Norw'egian ship in 1891 and is now in Tromso Museum ; 

 while a third was ^een near Amsterdam Island on 4 July, 

 1900 (Kolthoff ). Dr. Van Oordt saw one at Cap Boheman 

 on 26 June, 1921. 



42. Scolopax rusticola L. Woodcock. 



Koenig records remains of a Woodcock at a fox-earth in 

 Sassen Buy in 1907. 



43. Sterna paradisaea Briinn. Arctic Tern. 



Breeds commonly on the north and north-east coasts of 

 Bear Island and more sparingly on the north-west. On 



