500 Mr. A. Newtou on the Birds of Spitsbe?'(/en. 



Dr. Malmgren, this last had been found in Spitsbergen in 1837 

 by Professor Loven, and again in the following year by Pro- 

 fessor Sundevallj who accompained the French Northern Scien- 

 tific Expedition to Bell Sound. And here I may mention that, 

 though a long series of volumes recording the valuable obser- 

 vations made by the various savans who sailed on board the 

 * Recherche ' have been published, I have not been so fortu- 

 nate as to meet with anything relating to the ornithology of the 

 countries visited by them, except that in the 'Atlas^ of plates pub- 

 lished by M. Gaimard, the President of the " Commission Scien- 

 tifique du Nord,'' half-a-dozen figures of birds, from Spitsbergen 

 specimens, are included. These shall all be referred to under 

 their proper heads. 



I have already recorded my opinion (p. 200) of Dr. Malm- 

 gren's valuable 'Notes on the Bird-Fauna of Spitsbergen,' 

 published in 1863, and I need not here repeat it. He has 

 since kindly presented me with a copy of the supplementary 

 observations which his voyage last year enabled him to make, 

 and the results of which he published immediately on his return 

 to Sweden *. These are characterized by the same carefulness 

 that distinguished his former article, and the author has naturally 

 taken the opportunity of correcting most of the few errors which 

 that contained. In the first of his papers he adds to the list, 

 which can be compiled from preceding authorities on the subject, 

 four birds, Anser segetum, Falco gyrfalco, Strix nyctea, and a 

 species of Cygnus. The Goose, as I have already stated (P. Z. S. 

 1864, p. 498), was in tmih. Anser brachyrhynchus ; but the prin- 

 cipal feature of Dr. Malmgren's researches is that he destroys 

 the claims of no less than seven species, which had been proff"ered 

 by former writers. Some of these 1 have in the last few pages 

 particularized ; to the others I shall allude as I go on. In his 

 second paper he adds, chiefly on my authority (for I had com- 

 municated to him the fact of a Sterco?'arius pomatorhinus having 

 been recognized by my friends in Sassen Bay), one species, 

 aad omits two others which he had previously included. Thus, 

 according to Dr. Malmgren, the entire number known in Spits- 



* Nya anteckningar till Spetsbergens fogelfauna. Af A. J. Malmgren. 

 CEfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akaclemiens Forhandlingar, 1864, p. 377- 



