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mountain-woods of Grand Canary. The examples trans- 

 mitted to Tring shew that the form of Grand Canary is 

 slightly different, and Dr. Hartert proposes to call it 

 F. t. polutzeki. 



12. Harvie- Brown's Travels in Northern Europe. 



[Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871 3 Arch- 

 angel, 1872, Petchora, 1875. By J. A. Harvie-Brown. 2 vols. 8vo. 

 London, 1905. Pp. i-xiv, 1-260, i-viii, 261-541. 2 col. pis. and 23 

 illustr., 4 maps, 9 appeudices.] 



Mr. Harvie-Brown's ornithological experiences are well- 

 known to the members of our Union, and the papers on 

 the results of his expeditions were an important feature 

 in former volumes of our Journal ('Ibis/ 1873, p. 54; 

 1876, p. 105) ; but he strikes a new note when he gives us 

 in the present book the actual substance of his Journals in 

 almost the original phraseology. The journalistic form has, 

 of course, its disadvantages, but these are compensated by 

 the fact that we lose nothing of the pristine freshness of the 

 writer's impressions taken down while he was actually in 

 touch with the inhabitants — human and otherwise — of the 

 districts which he visited. Only of the third journey, more- 

 over, has a full account been hitherto published. 



In 1871 Mr. Harvie-Brown, in company with the late 

 E. R. Alston, travelled northward from Christiania through 

 a considerable part of Norway, which was not so well known 

 at that date as it is now ; and this tour was followed in 1872 

 by a second to the Archangel district and the delta of the 

 Dwina with the same companion. 



The chief object in view was the observation of certain of 

 the rarer British birds in their breeding-quarters, and a 

 partial success was attained, but an irresistible impulse drew 

 the author onward to still more Eastern countries, though 

 the project unfortunately failed for the time being through 

 the premature breaking up of the " winter-roads." But in 

 1875, Mr. Harvie-Brown, choosing the late Henry Seebohm 

 as his fellow-traveller, started across Northern Russia to 

 the Petchora River. It is needless to recapitulate the 



