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one only. I noticed that there was only one of the primaries with a 

 white spot. 



Gkeat Squa, Stercorarlus catarrhactes. (Skiimur.) — I saw this bird 

 many times, but did not procure any specimens. I ascertained the 

 locahty of a breeding haunt, but had no time to visit it. 



PoMATOKHiNE Squa, S. pomatorhinus. (Kjoi.) — I saw a Squa in 

 Seydisfjord with twisted feathers in the tail, which I concluded was 

 this bird. 



Eichardson's Squa, S. crepidatus. (Kjoi.) — Abundant. I detested 

 the bird for its bullying propensities, but marvelled at its wonderful 

 powers on the wing. I obtained an abundant series of the dark- and 

 light-breasted ones, and every intermediate stage. These are not two 

 forms ; I believe it will be found that the white-breasted birds are 

 simply completely adult, and that the bird needs several years to reach 

 that stage. Young birds may mate with adults, and young birds may 

 breed, as with some other Gulls. On dissection I found both males 

 and females amongst both dark and light birds. 



Razorbill, Alca torda. (Alka.) — Very common. I did not trouble 

 to procure more than one specimen, as my series is complete. 



Little Auk, Mergulus alle. (Haftirdill.) — I saw a flock of very 

 small sharp- winged swimming birds on entering Eyjafjord, which must 

 have been of this species. 



Guillemot, Una troile. (Laugvia.) — Very common. I did not 

 need any specimens. 



Brunxich's Guillemot, U. hniennicld. (Stuttnefja.) — I visited 

 some islands off the North coast in search of this bird, and it proved 

 to be one of the most disastrous and unsatisfactory of all my journeys. 

 I was too late for one thing, as the birds had all left the breeding rocks. 

 I saw several on the sea, and recognized them at once by their slightly 

 larger size, and black upper parts, as compared with the Common 

 Guillemot. The fishermen confirmed me that they were Stuttnefja, 

 and not Langvia. I tried to procure them with my 4-bore, but I was 

 so numbed with cold fog, and the swell from the islands was so great, 

 that I missed. In the boat I was almost up to my knees in water for 

 many hours. I landed on one of the islands — a most difficult matter 

 — and explored the top ; while the physical features of the second 

 island were so marvellous, that I do not regret having had to grope 

 about a fog-bound sea until near one in the morning. Numbed with 

 cold to the very marrow, soaking wet, and sick with hunger and 

 fatigue, the only accommodation I could get on shore, at the wretched 

 hut of the fisherman, was a basin of cold milk, and, thank heaven ! a 

 cup of hot coffee. I had to sleep in a hole in the ground, and next 



