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colour to those of a Snipe, but are smaller. There were a few ' 

 Kittiwakes up the valley; Eiders were rather numerous there, 

 also Fulmars. We this da}' saw Ivory Gulls for the first time. 

 I first saw a pair about five or six miles up the valley. Faussett, 

 during the day, on the mountains running into the valley from 

 the north, and many miles inland, noticed that on shooting a 

 Reindeer, and proceeding to cut it up, Ivory Gulls speedily found 

 it out, and congregated where none had been previously in sight. 

 Chapman rejoined us after some hours' separation ; he had bagged 

 (besides the Ptarmigan) a couple each of Eiders and Fulmars 

 and a Richardson's Skua, of which last species we had both 

 seen two or three examples inland. Our scattered party having 

 gradually reunited, we marched on until we were at an estimated 

 distance of about twenty miles inland, when we separated into 

 pairs, the better to stalk Deer, and ascended different mountains 

 on the south side of the valley. Lowson, who was with me, 

 obtained a Reindeer, the only one we saw. It was a buck, 

 probably in its third or fourth year. It measured from tip of 

 nose to tip of tail, 54 inches ; height at shoulder, 32£ inches. In 

 colour it was rather silver-grey, compared to the colour of Rein- 

 deer in Norway in summer. It was extremely fat, especially in 

 the " gluteal region." Its horns were, of course, in the velvet, 

 but, I think, almost fully developed. By the beach on the way 

 back (10 p.m.) we put up two Grey Geese, which flew back almost 

 over our heads. Chapman, who was the only one of our party 

 carrying a shot-gun, was not loaded at the time, so they went on 

 their way unmolested ; still closer to the water's edge, a little 

 farther on, were three Purple Sandpipers. The following birds 

 were shot during the day in the Fjord by various gunners : — 

 Eider Ducks, no drakes ; Briinnich's and Mandt's Guillemots ; 

 Little Auks, Northern Puffins, Arctic Terns, one Glaucous Gull, 

 one Purple Sandpiper, Fulmars, and Kittiwakes. On our way 

 back to the ship, across the Fjord, in a boat that night, Chapman, 

 who was facing forwards, observed an adult Red-throated Diver ; 

 I was sitting facing the stern, so only saw the bird from behind as 

 it flew over us, and have no doubt, from the size, that it belonged 

 to this species ; at any rate, I could be sure it was a Colymbus. 

 We arrived on board at 11 p.m., after a twenty-two hours' tramp. 



July 28th. What with being a night's rest in arrear and not 

 retiring this night until we had discussed, not only supper, but 



