Ohlin, Zoological observations during Peary Auxiliary Expedition 1894. 



for the Danish vessel. Peary'.s companions say they have observed 

 the Greenland falcon several times in Bowdoin Bay. 



2. Plectrophanes nivalis. - When arrived at Peary's winterhonse 

 August 19, I saw small flights of snow-buntings among the hills and 

 rocks, which were covered with a scarce vegetation of minute speci- 

 mens of Papaver nudi&aule, Potentilla, Sflene, Pyrola and other plants. 

 In Godhavn this little pretty bird was very common. 



3. Saxicola oenanthe. - This bird I observed only once; it was in 

 Godhavn, when stopping there on our northward trip. 



4. Cotvus corax. We shot one raven Juli "24 at Dalrymple 

 Island situated in the mouth of Wolstenholme .Sound. Then at the 

 end of August I observed some others at the entrance of Bowdoin Bay. 



5. Lagopus rapestr/.s is very common everywhere in the Danish 

 Greenland. Farther north I did not see any, but the ptarmigan fre- 

 quents in great numbers the coast of Inglefield Gulf according to 

 what I heard from Peary's party. 



6. Sterna macmra. - - Some specimens were observed in Murchison 

 Sound and other parts of Ingletield Gulf. Nowhere, I think, the 

 Arctic tern is breeding here in great number, as we saw but few of 

 this species. 



7. Pagop/ti/a cbumea. The ivory-gull I met with the first time 

 during the journey July '21 in the packice of Melville Bay. The only 

 specimen obtained on our expedition was shot in Murchison Sound 

 July 2(5. I did not see any more of these pretty birds in Inglefield 

 Gulf, so I think it is rather rare here. During our stop off Clarence 

 Head I saw 3 or 4, but nowhere else on the coast of Ellesmere Land. 



If one must consider the ivory-gull as very scarce in Baffin Bay, 

 I suppose 



8. Rissa tridactt/la is the most common gull here as every- 

 where in the Arctic and North-Atlantic seas. On our passages through 

 Davis' Strait and Baffin Bay, the ship was nearly the whole time 

 followed by the kittiwake although I am rather inclined to believe 

 that it decreases in number the farther north one proceeds in Smith 

 Sound according to observations made by former expeditions. 



9. Larus glaucus. This big gull occurred nearly everywhere in 

 Baffin Bay and Smith Sound. On the south-east Carey -Island we 

 found the glaucous gull breeding, but only a few pairs. Yet it was 

 not observed in so great a number as in Nova Zembla, Spit/bergen 

 and other parts of the Arctic Ocean. 



10. Lextris parasiticus, - The skua was to be seen on both sides 

 of Baffin Bay and several times on our passages through the Strait 

 of Davis, but never in great number. 



11. Procellaria glacialis. From my leaving St. Johns July 7 

 until I came, on my return voyage, into the North Sea in lat. 58 24' N. 



