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and this was no doubt considered by Prof. R. Collett later, 
as may be rendered more correctly, and considered more 
scientificaliy accurate. The Old Bushman has it thus:—“ It 
[Procellaria glacialis] is not seen on the Swedish coast in sum- 
mer, but occasionally in autumn and winter. Never further 
south on the Norwegian coast than Trondhjeim. Breeds in the 
far north in the islands off Norrland and Finland.” 
In Greenland, again, it is not found nesting further south 
than 69° N. lat., but was seen, but not nesting, as far north as 
82° 30” in Grant Land. 
So far as we have shown up to this point, the evidence, we 
think, points to what we have already indicated, viz. the prin- 
cipal cause of dispersal and its general direction. __ 
In 1868, Herr Miller published his excellent treatise on the 
Birds of Faroe,* and, amongst other interesting information, he 
quotes Mohr in his Icelandic Natural History,} that it only bred 
on Grimsey ; but Herr Muller goes ontosay: ‘‘ Now [t. e. 1863] 
it certainly breeds in numbers on the Westmann Islands! ” 
Grimsey is an island off the north coast of Iceland, and lies 
within the Arctic Circle, whereas the other localities in Iceland 
for the nesting haunts of the species are all southward of the 
Arctic Circle. As we have seen (ante, p. 407), birds nesting on 
Grimsey—as related by Prof. Newton—present the grey form of 
plumage to the exclusion of the light form, and was considered 
sufficiently distinct to receive the local name of ‘‘ Smidur,” or 
the Smith or Hammerman. But if we credit Mohr, as above 
quoted by Muller, may this not have been its only name then 
known in Iceland, and not one meant to distinguish between 
two forms? We mention this as having a possible bearing upon 
the earlier history of the species and its subsequent dispersal. 
THe Farogs. 
We now come to treat of the next great movement, which 
resulted in the populating of the Faroes. 
First, let us for a short space revert to the earlier writers— 
Svabo, Landt, Faber, Mohr. These earlier chroniclers have 
* Faeroernes Fuglefauna,’ Kjobenhavn, 1868. 
+ ‘Icelandske Naturhistorie,.’ 1786, p. 29: ‘ Bijgger allene paa Gairn: 
see,” p, 29. 
