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Abstract

Two members of tlie British Ornithologists' Union, Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Henry Seebohm, have recently returned from a most successful expedition into Northern Siberia. Leaving this country early in the spring of this year, they arrived at Ust Zylma, on the Petschora River, in the middle of April, after travelling overland from Archangel. They remained there until the breaking up of the ice in the beginning of June, when they took boat to Alexievska, and made this their head-quarters for some time. Of the most important ornithological acquisitions amongst more than 1,000 skins, are the young in down together with the eggs of the Little Stint and Grey Plover, the eggs (for the first time) of Bewick's Swan, the eggs of Sylvia middendorfii and S. borealis, the eggs of Motacilla citreola, the eggs of the Smew, and a new species of Pipit. These specimens will be exhibited by Mr. Seebohm at the next meeting of the Zoological Society on the 16th instant.