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the breast. I have not a Norwegian example with which to 

 compare my Spitsbergen one (selected, I may say, from a good 

 many we shot) ; but this latter is absolutely identical in every 

 point that I can see, most assuredly in those specified by Dr. 

 Malmgren, with a specimen 1 long ago received from the well- 

 known Mr. R. Dunn in the Shetlands. 



That the authors of the ' Fauna Boreali-Americana ' were very 

 much puzzled (as well they might be) with the different species 

 of Skuas there can be no doubt. I think that the S. cepphus 

 from Hecla Cove, described, as above quoted, as a new species, 

 must be referred to this, the commonest of all the Skuas. 



15. Stercorakius longicaudus, Vieillot. Lestris parasi- 

 tica, Sw. and Rich. F. B.-A. ii. p. 430. Stercorarius cephus, 

 G. R. Gray, List R. Br. Mus. p. iii. p. 167, exempl. a. S. huf- 

 foni, Malmgren, 1864, p. 391. 



In mentioning an example of this species shown me by Dr. 

 Malmgren, I spoke of it as " a new addition to the Spitsbergen 

 avifauna.'^ This is not the case. Specimens brought from that 

 country are recorded in the ' Fauna Boreali-Americana,' and one 

 contained in the British Museum is entered in the list published 

 by Mr. G. R. Gray in 1844. Dr. Malmgren's bird was shot on 

 the 12th July, near the Russian hut in Advent Bay where I 

 first had the pleasure of meeting him. He observed the species 

 on two other occasions, both times in Ice Sound. Whether this 

 bird breeds in Spitsbergen I do not know. 



16. Procellaria glacialis, L. ; Phipps, p. 186 ; Scoresby, 

 i. p. 528 ; Ross, p. 196 ; G. R. Gray, List. B. Brit. Mus. (1844) 

 pt. iii. p. 162, exempl. h; Evans and Sturge, p. 168; Malmgren, 

 1863, p. 106 ; Id. 1864, p. 393. " Mallemucke," Marten, p. 93, 

 tab. N. fig. c ; A. R, Martin, K. Vetensk.-Acad. Handl. xx. tab. 3, 

 p. 94. 



This is another of the birds which were found at the northern- 

 most latitude attained by Parry's Expedition. It is very abun- 

 dant all round Spitsbergen, so far as my information goes. Dr. 

 Malmgren found it breeding in thousands on the north side of 

 Brandywine Bay, lat. 80° 24' N. It breeds besides, but in smaller 

 numbers, on the Alkenhorn, whence, as I have said, I have an 



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