2 Prof. J. Reinhardt on the Birds 



father began to have birds collected in Greenland on a larger 

 scale for the Uoyal Museum of Copenhagen, which was then 

 under his care, and from this moment dates the great increase 

 in our knowledge of the Avifauna of that country. In 1824 

 he published a short paper — " Gronlands Fugle efter de nyeste 

 Erfaringer " * — in which four species were added ; and fourteen 

 years later, in the Introduction to his ' Ichthyologiske Bidrag 

 til den Gronlandske Fauna ^fj he added not less than twenty- 

 one, discovered in the meantime by the various collectors em- 

 ployed by the Royal Museum, and chiefly by Captain Holboll and 

 Dr. Vahl. In the following two or three years some more were 

 received, and thus, in 18i2, Holboll was enabled to enumerate, 

 in his ' Ornithologiske Bidrag ' J, eighty-eight species then ob- 

 served in Greenland, — or rather eighty-six, as two of the birds 

 included by him, Aquila ossifraga and Uria ringvia, have scarcely 

 any claim to be accounted distinct species. Since HolbolFs 

 memoir was written, even this considerable number has increased 

 very much, about thirty species more having been added. For 

 these additions science is indebted to various ornithologists, all 

 duly mentioned in my list ; but by far the greater number is 

 owing to the exertions of the late Carl Holboll and others of the 

 indefatigable collectors of the Royal Museum §. 



In Dr. Walker's paper on the " Ornithology of the Voyage 

 of the ' Fox,^ " which lately appeared in this Magazine {' Ibis,^ 



Ornith. p. 42) and my father, mentioned in the 'Fauna Groenlandica ' 

 vmder the name of Alca pica, and accordingly cannot be considered a 

 real addition to the list; and in the same way, Falco peregrinus, also added 

 by Sabine, seems to have been enumerated by Fabricius as F. rusticolus. 



* In the ' Tidskrift for Naturvidenskaberne,' Kjobenhavn, 1824, vol. iii. 

 pp. 52-80. 



t In the ' Vid. Sel. naturvid. og mathem. A.fh.' vii. pp. 85-228. 



X In Kroyer's ' N^turhistoriske Tidskrift,' 1843, vol. iv. pp. 361-457. 

 A German translation of this paper has been published : " Oruithologischer 

 Beitrag zur Fauna Gronlands von Carl Holboll. Uebersetzt und mit einem 

 Anhange versehen von J. H. Paulsen." Leipzig, 1846. 



§ Many of these additions were recorded in the author's " Notitser til 

 Gronlands Ornithologie," published in the ' Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra 

 den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn f. A. 1853,' p. 69, of which 

 paper, a translation, by Dr. Gloger, appeared in Cabanis' ' Journal fiir Or- 

 nithologie,' 1854, p. 423.— Ed. 



