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Prof. S. F. Baird on the Distribution and 



From an examination of the above list it will be seen that 

 the only land-bird abundant in Iceland, and not noticed in 

 Greenland, is Falco cesalon. The European species to be looked 

 for in Greenland as occurring in Iceland are only the F. cesalon, 

 Chelidon urbica, Hirundo rustica, Troglodytes borealis, Turdus 

 merula, Ruticilla tithys, Corvus corax?, and Corvus comix. It 

 will also be noticed that all the European land-birds common in 

 Greenland have also been found in continental North America*. 

 The Ptarmigans of the three regions will quite probably be 

 found identical. 



The following is a table of the water-birds of Greenland and 

 Iceland belonging to the European fauna, — from which it will be 

 seen that two species, Crex pratensis and Ortygometra porzana, 

 are found in Greenland, and are not yet recorded from Iceland ; 

 eleven or twelve species in Iceland and not in Greenland ; one 

 in Newfoundland, Scolopax rusticola, and neither in Greenland 

 or in Iceland ; eleven in both Greenland and Iceland (there 

 are in Greenland proportionally fewer water-birds than land- 

 birds of the European fauna that occur in continental North 

 America). 



* Haliaetus albicilla was noticed by Sclater as found in Newfoundland 

 and Nova Scotia, although now he considers the evidence rather uncer- 

 tain. The Smithsonian Institution possesses specimens of true Falco 

 peregrinus as distinguished from F. anatum from Moose Factory, Hudson's 

 Bav. 



