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N. lat., and between 30 and 40 E. long., has received a 

 comparatively small share of the attention of naturalists, 

 and that since Von Middendorff* wrote in 1840, and 

 Lilljeborg t in 1856, there have been but few notices of 

 its ornithology. 



Professor Palmen, of Helsingfors, however, has accumu- 

 lated many private notes and communications from 

 naturalists who have during comparatively late years 

 visited the west coast of the White Sea and the 

 peninsula of Kola. Many of these notes Professor 

 Palmen has incorporated with his ' Finlands Foglar,' 

 vol. ii., 1873. 



Further, Harvie-Brown has been informed by Professor 

 Palmen that Lieut. H. Sandeberg, a Swedish ornitho- 

 logist, has done very good ornithological work in the 

 Kola peninsula last year (1876), and has also collected 

 around Archangel ; but it is not yet known where or 

 when the results will appear. 



The country around Archangel and the delta and course 

 of the River Dvina, as well as the Cholmogory and Mezen 

 districts, have undergone tolerably careful scrutiny since 

 Brandt and Bystrov gave their contribution to our know- 

 ledge in 1844 ; but the country to the eastward of Mezen 

 and between that and the Petchora may still be considered 

 as almost virgin ground to the ornithologist. 



* Middendorff, ' Bericht iiber die orn. Ergebnisse der naturhisto 

 Keise in Lappland, wahrend des Sommers, 1840.' Beitrage zur 

 Kcnntniss des Buss. Eddies, Bd. xi. 



f Lilljeborg, ' Bidrag till Norra Rysslands och Norriges fauna, 

 s .unlade under en vetenskapelig resa i dessa lander, 1848,' K. V. A. 

 Handl. 185, ii. 



Brandt -Bystrov, ' List of Skins of Mammals and Birds sent by 

 Herr Bystrov, of Mezen, to Zool. Mus. Acad., Bull, de la Soc. de 

 VAcad. de St. Peter sbourg, vol. x. p. 350, 1842. N.B. A full list of 

 authors and their writings will be given in chronological order in 

 Ilarvic-Brown's papers on distribution. 



