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On the tundra, near Stanavialachta, Willow Grouse, says Mr. 
Seebohm, ‘‘were as plentiful as Red Grouse on the Bradfield 
moors on the 12th. Their white wings, their almost entirely 
white bodies, made them very conspicuous objects. They usually 
rose within shot from a patch of willow cover. Sometimes we 
would see a pair knocking about the tundra, like two big white 
butterflies with a peculiar up and down flight, then they would 
go tumbling into a willow-grown knoll on the hill side. It 
might be owing to their extreme conspicuousness that their 
flight always seemed so much more clumsy than that of the Red 
Grouse. One of their nests which we found on the ground con- 
tained a baker’s dozen of eggs. It was a mere hollow scraped in 
the turf, lined with a leaf or two, a little dry grass, and a few 
feathers.” 
THE LIGHTHOUSE AT HELIGOLAND ON A MIGRATION NIGHT. 
On the subject of migration, as observed at Heligoland, Mr. 
Seebohm has some very interesting remarks (pp. 249—261). 
He visited this island on his return from Siberia, and arriving 
just on the eve of the autumnal migration, for the observation of 
which Heligoland is so admirably situated, he was. naturally 
