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tolerably fresh in my mind ; but as it was not come to on the 

 spot, and as it is a species, and even genus, entirely new to Spitz- 

 bergen, though common in Lapland and the north of Scandinavia 

 generally, on the authority of Mr. Richard Dann (quoted by 

 Yarrell, 'Brit. Birds,' iii. p. 316, 3rd edit.), and Dresser says it is 

 " common in Northern Russia and Novara Zemlya," I do not 

 wish to do more than mention the case for what it may be worth. 

 A good many Fulmars were about the bay ; one or two Glaucous 

 Gulls ; two or three Eiders. Much spor of large web-footed birds, 

 probably Geese and Glaucous Gulls, in the snow all about the 

 low ground near the sea, but no Geese seen until we were in the 

 boat on our return journey, when a " skein " flew by, no doubt Pink- 

 footed. A few young Mandt's Guillemots. Saw one Seal on our 

 way back, probably a Ringed Seal, though it looked dark, like a 

 Great Seal, of wbich species it may have been a young one. On 

 arrival on board I found M. Rabot already returned ; he had made 

 the ascent of a mountain with one of the seamen, where the snow 

 was so deep and soft that they had been obliged for some distance 

 to go on all fours. I am afraid I should have hardly thought it 

 worth the trouble. 



September 15. — Just after I got out of bed this morning the 

 Captain sent down word that there was a bird alongside which 

 I ought to shoot. Hastening on deck, I shot a young Richardson's 

 Skua, in mottled brown plumage, the only one seen during the 

 voyage. Rabot and I went off Reindeer hunting, each taking one 

 of the boats. Arnesen, one of the men, and I rowed some little 

 way up the bay, and landing went above and behind the valley in 

 which we had killed the deer the day before. Just after we landed 

 we saw three Divers flying, but could not tell the species. We 

 soon saw three deer, — buck, doe, and calf, — but they kept walking, 

 hardly lingering at all, and we tried in vain to get up to them. 

 At last, leaving the seamen to watch them, the Captain and I went 

 down to lower ground to try and head them off. We noticed that 

 three foxes in company had run heel on our tracks of yesterday, 

 along a river-bed, scenting the Reindeer-blood. After a stiff 

 scramble we succeeded in getting up to the deer, and I shot the 

 buck and doe right and left ; Arnesen then shot the calf. The 

 buck, which I supposed to be three years old, measured GO inches 

 in total length, the doe 58 inches, and the calf (female) 4o£ inches. 

 The Litter's horns were just showing through the skin, barely 



