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be was attached as official naturalist on board H.M.S. 
‘Alert.’ The results of his valuable labours on this 
occasion were duly recorded on the publication of Nares’ 
second edition of the 4 Narrative of the Voyage to the Polar 
Sea’ (1878), Feilden being responsible for the sections on 
Ethnology, Mammalia, and Ornithology, and jointly with 
de Ranee for that on Geology. The chief ornithological 
event of the expedition was the finding by Feilden of the 
nestlings of the Knot (Tringa canutus ), the eggs of which 
bird were, however, not discovered till some 25 years after¬ 
wards, when they were sent back to Europe by Walter and 
Birulia in the course of the Russian Polar Expedition, 
1900-1903. Besides this voyage to the Arctic, Feilden at 
various times visited the Fseroe Islands (“ Birds of the 
Fseroe Islands,” Zoologist, 1872, pp. 3210, 3245, 3277), 
Iceland, Spitzbergen, Novaya Zemlya (/ Beyond Petsora 
Eastward,’ by II. J. Pearson, with appendices on the 
Botany and Geology by H. W. Feilden), the result of 
his observations on these various journeys also appearing- 
in numerous papers contributed to 4 The Ibis/ "Zoologist/ 
and other journals. 
Much of his work as regards the ornithology of his native 
country was carried out in conjunction with his friend, the 
late J. A. Harvie-Brown : together they visited the mainland 
and isles of Scotland * and together they formed the 
valuable series of skins which, with the collection of eggs 
and specimens brought home by Feilden from his various 
expeditions, was destroyed in the disastrous fire at Harvie- 
Brown’s mansion of Dunipace, Stirlingshire, in 1897. In 
1880 Feilden settled for a time at West House, Wells, 
Norfolk, and while resident there became a member of the 
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, and President 
of that body in 1885. In 1901 he inherited from his 
uncle, Mr. Leyland Feilden, the fine Elizabethan house of 
* For the account of Feilden’s finding the eggs of the Dotterel 
(Charadrius morinellus), see Harvie-Brown & Buckley, ( Fauna of 
Moray Basin,’ vol. ii. p. 172. 
