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view we can look seaward toward Spitzbergen, and directly in the direction of the North Pole. The auk is seen standing on the rocks in the middle distance; and also further to the left there is a gull.

Some charming photographs of wild ducks have been taken down at Bratvær, where the celebrated fisheries for torsk and herring are. There occur the famous eider ducks (Someteria mollisima), which yield the precious eiderdown, so extensively used as a lining for fashionable winter garments. These ducks heavily line their nests with this down, and its collecting is an industry of no little commercial importance. We also have several species of eider ducks in our own