t£ THE ZOOLOGIST. 



StrejJsilas interpres, L., Turnstone. — Two specimens in 

 summer plumage were shot on the 27th and 31st of May. Three 

 others in winter plumage were shot in September, and a young 

 bird on the 2nd of that month. Appeared on the spring migration 

 for several days in the month of May, and in the autumn migra- 

 tion during the first days of September. This species is widely 

 distributed throughout the high arctic regions, and breeds also 

 in Greenland, from which country it was probably shaping its 

 course across Jan Mayen, since young birds were seen among the 

 migrants. 



Nzimenius phceopus, L., Whimbrel. — This bird was not 

 very often seen in the month of June, and was generally met 

 with in pairs. Judging by the remains found, it appears 

 frequently to fall a prey to the Arctic Fox. Although I noticed 

 for a long time a pair which sojourned amongst the drift-wood 

 at the north lagoon, I could not convince myself that they 

 nested there. One day I found only a feather, and a part of 

 the head with the beak. Holboll obtained this species in the 

 South, as well as in North Greenland. [The Whimbrel is a 

 common bird during the summer in Iceland. It is only of 

 occasional occurrence in Greenland, and one was picked up, 

 though long dead, in Spitzbergen, but may have been carried 

 there on the ice. — W. E. C] 



Tringa cinclus, L., Dunlin. — Met with in June and the 

 beginning of July in flocks of as many as ten individuals, also 

 in company with M. hiaticula, and was not very shy. Male 

 shot on the 15th of June, and female on the 16th. According to 

 Heuglin ('Ibis,' 1872, p. (32), common in September, in Novaya 

 Zemlya : according to Fabricius and Bernhardt, T. cinclus appears 

 in Greenland. It is remarkable that the specimens which were 

 shot on Jan Mayen in June were not in summer plumage, but 

 showed a youthful-looking dress ; they differ, however, from the 

 average European young birds by a darker — in fact a blacker — 

 shade on the upper parts. Two specimens, obtained by Graf 

 Wilczek in Novaya Zemlya, agree perfectly with those from Jan 

 Mayen. Since, as Naumann asserts, some individuals of T. 

 cinclus still wear winter plumage in their spring migration, 

 the above-mentioned northern specimens may be regarded as 

 birds which have started for their summer quarters before putting 

 on their gala dress. The transition to the nuptial dress with 



