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backj and the flanks ; but the ground-colour of one is much 

 darker than the other. One (the darkest) specimen, singularly 

 enough, has on the outer edge of the middle toe and on the outer 

 interdigital web of each foot some two or three small yellowish 

 feathers — a fact I cannot at all explain. 



19. Cygnus, sp. ?, Malmgren, 1863, p. 116; Id. 1864, p. 411. 

 A walrus-hunter assured Dr. Malmgren, on his former voyage, 



that two years before he had shot a Swan on a lake near the 

 Stor Fjord; and he was also told by Captain Kuylenstierna that, 

 in the expedition of 1861, a Swan was seen at the end of August 

 in Advent Bay. These birds were probably accidental visitors 

 from Nova Zembla, where, according to Von Baer, a Swan 

 breeds in large numbers ; but it is very doubtful whether the 

 species be C. musicus or C, minor, 



20. Harelda glacialis (L.) ; Torell, p. 59 ; Malmgren, 



1863, p. 108 ; Id. 1864, p. 399. Anas glacialis, Temminck, 

 Man. d'Orn. 1815, p. 558. 



This bird is one of the few regular visitants to Spitsbergen 

 which none of our party observed. It seems to be scarce there ; 

 but it occurs even as far north as the Depot Holm, lat. 80° N., 

 where Dr. Malmgren, in his former voyage, saw a female bird. 

 Its mate had been killed previously, and is now in the Stockholm 

 Museum. The Doctor remarks that this specimen has the bill 

 rather smaller than Scandinavian examples, and somewhat 

 differently coloured. He also saw a pair in Kobbe Bay, on the 

 28th May, 1861, and last year on the 1st August met with a 

 family party of five on a small pool of fresh water on one of 

 the Horn Sound Islands. 



21. SoMATERiA MOLLTSsiMA (L.) ; G. R. Gray, List B. Brit. 

 Mus. (1844) pt. iii. p. 141, exempl. d.; Evans and Sturge, p. 167; 

 Torell, p. 57; Malmgren, 1863, p. 109. ''Mountain Duck,'' 

 Marten, p. 90, tab. M. fig. c. Anas mollissima, Phipps, p. 186 ; 

 Scoresby, i. p. 527 ; Ross, p. 197. Somateria spectahilis, Beechey, 

 op. cit. p. 100? " Somateria mollissima (L.), var.," Malmgren, 



1864, p. 399. 



Sufiiciently numerous all around Spitsbergen, but becoming 



