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" perlitora spargite muBcum, 



Naiadee, et cireiun vitreos considite fontes: 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At T08, o H^ymphse Craterides, ite 8ub undas ; 

 Ite, recurrato variata corailia trunco 

 Veilite museosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



Jf. Parthenii f}iannettasii Eel. 



No. 115. JULY 1877. 



I. — On the Distribution of Birds in North Russia. — 

 II. Longitudinal Distribution of Sjjecies North of 64^ 30' 

 N. lat.^ or the NORTHERN DIVISION. By J. A. Harvie 

 Brown, F.Z.S., Member of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union. 



Introductory Eemarks. 



While I was preparing the following paper it was suggested 

 to me that I should include the northern portions of Scandi- 

 navia and Finland, as well as Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Novaja 

 Zemlja, as then the distribution of species in the whole of the 

 portions of the Western Pal^earctic region north of 64° 30' N. 

 lat., as far as recorded, would be shown in one tabular view. 



I have given the matter due consideration ; and although I 

 have at hand most of the materials necessary for such a com- 

 parison, I have come to the conclusion that the more satis- 

 factory way will be first to complete the tabulation of records 

 in Russia, as far south as 60° or 59° N. lat., and then to com- 

 pare the faunas of the countries north of the Baltic and north 

 of the parallel of 60° N., and to show, under each, the northern 

 and southern, as well as the western and eastern, distri- 

 bution. 



It was, again, suggested to me that I should confine my 



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