THE ORNITHOLOGICAL RESULTS OF THE POLAR 
EXPEDITION UNDER DR. NANSEN. 
(A REVIEW.) 
R. W. SHUFELDT. 
WHAT was accomplished. for the science of ornithology 
during the journey of the Fram under Dr. Nansen and the 
intrepid explorers and naturalists who accompanied him in the 
North-European polar seas, during the years 1893-96, now 
appears in the form of a valuable quarto brochure, issued by 
its distinguished authors, to whom my thanks are due for a 
complimentary copy.! 
This excellent work exhibits throughout great care in prepara- 
tion, scientific accuracy, and a marked attention to details, de- 
scriptions and methods of presentation of the facts in the hands 
of its authors. It is handsomely printed and is illustrated by 
two plates devoted to Rosse's gull (Rhodostethia rosea). The 
first of these is an uncolored one, facing page 16, and represents 
two specimens of the bird, suspended by their legs in such a 
manner as to exhibit the pattern of the plumage upon their 
ventral and dorsal aspects. They were shot August 3, 1894. 
In the second plate, at the close of the work, we have a beauti- 
ful colored figure of this famous gull sitting on the ice, with 
another individual in flight in the background. In the distance 
we see the Fra» firmly frozen in the ice pack, while far beyond 
the horizon the picture is completed by the cold red sky of 
those north polar seas. The birds in this plate are specimens 
of the young in first plumage. 
By the aid of my camera I have copied this latter plate and 
offer it here as an illustration to the present review. 
e Norwegian North Polar Expedition, 1893-96. Scientific Results edited 
by Fridtjof Nansen. — IV. An Account of the Birds by Robert Collett and 
Fridtjof Nansen. Published by the Fridtjof Nansen Fund for the Advancement 
of Science. Christiania, Jacob Dybwad; London, New York, Bombay, Long- 
mans, Green & Co.; Leipzig, F. A. Brockhaus, 1899. Cloth, pp. 1-54, 1 plate, 1 
figure in text. 
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