6 Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown on the 



Island and the mainland near Yugorsky Strait, also of Wai- 



gats Strait ; V. Heuglin mentions 38 species as occurring at 



these localities. 



10. 



1 873. GoEBEL, H. " Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Ornis des Archan- 

 gel'schen Gouvernements." (Journal fiir Ornithologie, 1873, Jan., 

 no. 121, pp. 406-422.) N.C. 



167 species are recorded as occurring in the N.E. district ; 



but, as will be shown further on, a good many of these have 



more or less doubt attaching to them*. 



11. 

 1873. PALMiN, Prof, J. A, Finlands Foglar, hufvndsakligen till 

 deras dragter beskrifna af Magnus von Wright, &c, Yol. ii. Hel- 

 singfors, 1873. N.W., N.C. (and S.W.) 



In this volume all notices have been carefully collected 

 by Prof. Palm^n as to the distribution of the birds (GaUinse, 

 Grallse, and Anseres) of Finland, as far to the eastward as 

 the river Wig and Onega Sea, in the S.W. district, and in- 

 cluding the whole of the peninsula of Kola, in the N.W. 

 District ; and to it I am greatly indebted for data for my N.W. 

 District, as Prof. Palm^n quotes all previous writers, including 

 Middendorff and Lilljeborg, and other reports from naturalists 

 who have visited the country — Sahlberg and Malmberg and 

 others. By the courtesy of Prof. Palmen I am also made aware 

 that Lieut. H. Sandebergf, a Swedish naturalist, has last year 

 (1876) done very good ornithological work in Kola, and that 

 he also collected in the neighbourhood of Archangel. The 

 results, however, are not yet made public. 



Amongst the families treated of in the above workj by 

 Prof. Palmen, there are records of 90 species altogether which 

 range into Eussia. Of these, 58 are recorded from the N.W., 



* The following paper by Herr Goebel refers mostly to the Southern 

 Division, and will come to be quoted when I treat of the latter ; I have 

 not considered it necessary to refer directly to it in the present connexion : 

 — 1871, Goebel, H., "Eine Reise von Petersbm-g nach Archangelsk liber 

 Tver, Jaroslav, Vologda und Ustjug vom 8. May bis 1. Juni 1864 " 

 (' Journal fur Ornithologie,' pp. 20-27, 1871). 



t Since the above was sent in to press, in a letter dated "Stockholm, 

 20th April," addressed to Prof. Newton, Lieut. Sandeberg writes that he 

 found 53 species of birds new to the peninsula of Kola, last year. He 

 starts again shortly for further exploration in Kola, and, time permitting, 

 in Kanin and Kolguef 



X The same subject is dealt with more fullj' by Prof. Palmen in a later 

 paper in the ' Journal fiir Orn.' for 1876, p. 40 : — " Die geogr. Verbrei- 

 tung der Hiihner-, Sumpf- und Wasser-Vogel im faunistischen Gebiete 

 Finlands." The particulars in ' Finlands Foglar ' are for the most part 

 brought up to date in this later paper ; and it also ought to be consulted 

 in this place. 



