106 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
1836 (The Analyst, vi., pp. 160,161); another bird of the 
same species, at Vestmanoe, on the southern coast of Iceland, 
about 1843 (the skeleton in the Museum of Copenhagen) ; 
a D. culminata was caught on the ice, April 1837, at Fiskum- 
vand, Eker, in Norway (preserved in the Christiania Museum). 
When we add the above-mentioned D. melanophrys, shot 
north-west of Spitzbergen in June 1878, it will be seen that, 
in the course of about fifty years, no less than six Albatrosses, 
of four different species, have occurred in the northern part 
of the Atlantic.! But in all these cases there is no reason 
to believe anything but that they have been accidental 
visitors. The case of the Myggenaes Albatross is, however, 
quite different: it is the only instance of a _ southern 
Albatross, not only flying far away from its home, but choosing 
a new home in a northern latitude, and settling among birds 
of a quite different species, and which year by year, for more 
than a generation, migrates and returns to the same spot. It 
is this that makes the case interesting, and makes it worth 
while regarding this rock in the far north more closely, to 
see what conditions of living it may offer to an Albatross. 
Myggenaes Holm is the small islet-—the most western of 
the Fer6ese—situated in the immediate neighbourhood of the 
western coast of Myggenaes, in lat. 62° 8’ N. In his classic 
“Forsdg til en Beskrivelse over Feerderne” (“ Attempt at a 
Description of the Fzrée Islands,’ Copenhagen, 1800), Jorgen 
Landt mentions it as follows (pp. 73, 74):—“ Myggenaes Holm 
is situated to the west of Myggenaes, at a distance of 20 
fathoms; it is evident that it has been torn from this island 
by some revolution of Nature; the islet is nearly a mile in 
leneth and 1600 feet wide, and consists of closely joined 
basaltic rocks; this is seen especially on the southern side; 
to the west or north-west it 1s about 30 fathoms high, and 
around it are several projecting rocks, called ‘ Drengur.’ 
1] have only here given the most undoubted dates. In The Zoologist, 
1871 and 1876, are found two notes: ‘‘ Albatross in Derbyshire,” and 
**Vellow-nosed Albatross in Derbyshire”; I do not know whether they 
record anything new. Van Kempen (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xiv., 1889, 
p. 106) mentions a Phoebetria fuliginosa from Dunkerque, but satisfactory 
account of its history is wantivg. An Albatross, seen by Mr Harvie-Brown 
in 1894, remains to be mentioned. 
