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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES. 



Vol. VII.] NOVEMBEK, 1883. [No. 83. 



AN AUTUMN VISIT TO SPITZBERGEN. 



By Alfeed Heneage Cocks, M.A., F.Z.S. 



(Continued from p. 409.) 



September 16. — Just as I and my boat's crew were ready tbis 

 morning, a Seal was reported ; we immediately gave cbase, but it 

 would not let us get near. After we bad turned and started 

 shoreward, I shot a couple of Northern Puffins, which were not a 

 pair, as one would have imagined, but both males ; and we saw a 

 bird flying, which was probably a "Lorn" (Diver). At no great 

 distance from where we landed we saw six deer, a party of five 

 and another of seven being also not far off, and others further 

 off still; in all we counted about forty-eight. After various 

 manoeuvres we were reduced to hands and knees, and finally a 

 long stalk on our stomachs through rather wet snow brought us to 

 within 250 yards, and nearer than that it was impossible to crawl. 

 "We accordingly shot from there, and each obtained a doe, 58|- in. 

 and 59 in. long, and wounded a third, which we lost. The smaller 

 of the two killed had only one horn, with no signs of a second. 

 Some time later we saw a doe and calf some distance ahead, and 

 five other deer feeding on the hillside a little way higher up. We 

 sent the seaman round, armed with my shot-gun, to try and drive 

 them towards us, while we waited to take up a position until we 

 should see which direction they were likely to take. It con- 

 siderably surprised me that they allowed the seaman to come up 

 quite close, within gunshot; he refrained from firing, and we 

 presently saw him driving the seven deer in front of him, almost 



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