440 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



built in a hole in the earth, of dry moss, grass, etc., and 

 here and there a feather. The eggs were " hard sat on/' 

 but strange to say, he does not describe them. Shot both 

 females at nest, and they, as well as the eggs, are preserved 

 in the Stockholm Museum. 



8. The Kittiwake. Very common. Always breeds in 

 company with the ivory and the glaucous gulls, the ivory 

 gulls taking the lowest position on the rock, the kittiwakes 

 the middle, and the glaucous gulls the uppermost. 



9. The Glaucous Gull. Common along all the coasts. 



10. Richardson's Skua. Lestris parasitica, Nilss. Tole- 

 rably common. They often follow the kittiwakes, but never 

 the glaucous or the ivory gulls. 



11. The Fulmar Petrel. Very common on the north 

 coast of Spitzbergen. 



12. The Brent Goose. Common on all the coasts. Does 

 not appear to breed on the islands off the north coast, but 

 on the fast land. Took a nest in Trenzenberg Bay, with 

 four eggs, in the end of June. By the way, I fancy it was 

 one of these very eggs which I saw in a collection at Gene 

 in 1862 ; and on my remarking what a dilapidated condition 

 it was in, I was told that it was brought down from Spitz- 

 bergen with a lot more eggs, in a barrel, packed in salt ! 

 Rather a novel mode this of transporting valuable eggs. 



13. TheBernicle. Not seen by Malmgren, but, accord- 

 ing to Torell, is without doubt met with there. The prin- 

 cipal breeding place of this goose appears to be North 

 Russia, east of the White Sea. 



14. The Bean Goose. Appears to be rare on Spitz- 

 bergen. 



15. The Long-tailed Duck. Is sparingly distributed 

 along the coasts, and breeds in small companies, always by 

 the side of fresh water ; and this I found invariably the case 

 in Lapland. 



16. The Eider Duck. Very common. 



17. The King Eider. Certainly does not breed on these 

 coasts north of 79 5', for these were well explored by the 

 expedition, and not a bird seen. He does not deny that it 



