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 May, 9 I THE Professor of Zoology in the University of Christiania and a foreign member of the A. O. U., is associated with Doctor Nansen in the production of this valu- able contribution to polar onithology. By the aid of my camera I have made a reduced copy of the colored plate of ?. rosea, and a half-tone copy of this illustrates the present notice. From the "Introduction" we learn that the observations recorded are' divided into four (IV) sections; the first three being from Nansen's journals -"supplemented by his verbal comments and explana- tions during the preparation of the work. The last section gives the ob- servations made during the time that the ship was drifting with the ice in the summers of895 and 896, and is compiled from written and verbal in- fororation received froin Scott-Hansen Blessing and Mogstad, and also from the journals kept by Sverdrup." These observations are quite full, as the brochure covers fifty-four (54) pages. After the ship had closed in the ice, the first bird seen .in the spring of 894 (a gull, probably ?aophila eburnea), appeared on May I3; birds were seen now and again until after the middle of August. After August 23rd, or the day when all the channels and lanes about the ship began to freezeup, no.-birds were seen. "Dur- ing this part of the, .journey, eight specimens of l?hodostelhia rosea were shot and prepared, all of them young birds of tile year." while "Farthest north was found Fulmarzts .o'lacialis, of which a specimen.was.observed in 85 5' N. Lat." In the brief notice, of such a formal work, as I am now giving it would be obviously out of the "question to enter upon all the valuable, interesting, oftentimes amusing records made in so extended an account, and one covering a period of several years. At the close of the narrative an "Index" is printed, which sets forth a list of the birds seen or collected during the entire Expedi- tion to the number of thirty-three (33) CONDOR 7' including, as one would naturally sup- pose, not a few of our American boreal forms. They are zialilis hfaticula, Mlle alle, Mnser seetum, Mrchibuteo la- gopus, Mrquatella marllima, Branta ber- nicla, Uep]Shus mandtL Uolg,mbus arcticus, Urymophilus fulicarius, Falco (esalon, Fratercula a. 'lacialis, Fulmarus .rlacialis, ]-[areIda lacialis, L. la, ffo]Sus, Larus ar. ffentatus, L. fusvus, L..ff[aucus, ]. maritimus, 2Vg,ctea scandiaca, Pagophila eburnea, Phalaro- pus hyperboreus, Plectrophenax nivalis, tVhodostethia rosea, Rissa tridactyla, So- materia mollisMma, Squatarola helvetica, Stercorarius crepidatus, S. lonicaudus, S. pomatorhinus, gterna macrura, To- tants ebulari/s, Uria lorn via and Vema sabinii. This is an interesting list, and in it there is to be found but one pas- sefine bird, namely, P. nivalis, which was frequently observed by these dis- tinvuished explorers at various points during the course of their journey. AF'rv.u five years of )rompt publica- tion, The ,tseum of Albion, N. V., has consolidated with the 2Vaturalist, Farm and anciers' tVeview, a publication de- voted chiefly to loultry interests, bu't containin. natural history departments. The ]eview is conducted by Mr. H. Kerr and will be issued from Albion, N. V. Mr. rebb Will address his friends from time to time on conchology and kindred sublects through a special de- partment. With the passinc: of the Muse,m we can but commend Bro. urobb for his standard of prompt lubli- cation, a .feature too often lacking in many of our scientific journals. M. 1on W. M.a*r of Palestine, Or., writes under date of Arril o that the iuncos have begun building and that on Mprch 6 he noticed a young Western Meadowlark (Xturnella ne.,o'lecta3 about two weeks from the nest, which was early, considering a fall of snow in February, followed by a cold snap.