8 Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown on the 



the species represented an unequivocal right to be included 

 in the fauna of the Noethern Division, as many may, and no 

 doubt have been procured in the Government south of our 

 present limit of 64° 30' N. lat., and may more correctly come 

 to be included in the fauna of the southern division. Besides, 

 in the absence of a catalogue, there are one or two more 

 which I am inclined to reject altogether from the fauna, for 

 reasons which I will explain when I come to treat of the 

 doubtful species at the end of this paper. 



15. 



1876. PiojTTTCH. Partial Lists of Collections sent home to England, 

 bearing dates of 1875 and 1876, by Piottuch, collector at Arch- 

 angel. 



These lists only add, however, two records*; but they verify 

 some of the previous records, which would otherwise remain 

 doubtful. 



16. 



1876. Mr. F. C. Ceaemeks informs me also that he has added two 

 species f , specimens of which are now in Mr. H. E. Dresser's 

 collection. I am indebted also to Mr. Craemers for copies of 

 the above partial hsts of Piottuch's collections. M. Piottuch, 

 however, has collected since 1872, but I have not seen all the 

 Lists. 



Besides the above I find also the following : — 



17. 

 1853. ScHEADER. " Beobachtungen liber die Vogel Lapplands." 

 (Journal fiir Om. 1853, p. 242+.) At page 243-44 a Hst of 20 

 species which were found by him in Russian Lappland. 



18. 

 1876. Db. Theel. " Note sur les oiseaux de la Nouvelle-Zemble." 

 (Annales des Sc. Nat. 1876, tome iv. article 6.) 



• Prcdincola i-uhicola ? and Somateria spectahilis. 



t Buteo desertorum and Fregilus f/raculus. 



X Among the references in the Tables I am obliged to leave this out in 

 its proper chronological order, and to enter it at the end as No. 17, 

 as also the following, which I only refer to in the " Notes :'' — 



1876. Dr. B. Radakoff. " Hand- Atlas der geogr. Ausbreitung der im 

 europaischen Russland nistenden Vogel zusammengestellt von Dr. B. 

 RadakofF" (H. Berghaus's * Atlas der Thier-Geographie,' Moscou, 

 1876). For notice of this, ride 'Ibis,' 1877, April, p. 225. The text 

 wiU appear in Russian and be at once translated into German on its 

 completion. 



