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guided to Greenland. The specimen (an adult female) was ob- 

 tained at Godthaab, and presented to the Royal Museum in 1851. 

 Accordingly I have been somewhat surprised to see that Mr, 

 Cassin supposes (Reports of Expl. &c. ix. p. 751) the bird to be 

 a constant summer visitor to Greenland^ while it really does not 

 even occur in Iceland as a regular visitor. 



61. ^Ortygnmeti-a porzana (Linn.). 



Besides one obtained the 28th of September, 1841, at Godt- 

 haab, and already mentioned by Holboll, another has been cap- 

 tured at Nenortalik, and sent to the Royal Museum in 1856. 



62. ^ Orttjgometra Carolina (Linn.). 



The specimen mentioned by my father (Ichth. Bidr. p. 20) to 

 have been obtained at Sukkertoppen, October 3, 1823, is the 

 only one ever observed in Greenland. Holboll, by a mistake, 

 quotes the bird as obtained in 1822. 



63. Fulica americana, Gm. 



In the year 1854, a Coot was shot by Mr. Olrik, the Governor 

 of North Greenland, in the harbour of Christianshaab, one of the 

 settlements in Disco Bay, and another was obtained at Godthaab 

 by Mr. Holboll in the same year. The first-mentioned example 

 was presented to Mr. John Barrow, and is now in that gentle- 

 man's collection. The other specimen, which I am told was very 

 much injured by the shot, does not seem to have been preserved. 



64. Anser albifrons (Gm.). 



fAxSER CINEREUS DOMESTICUS. 



65. Anser hyperboreus, Pall. 



Only a few young birds hitherto observed. Certainly does not 

 breed on that tract of the Greenland coast occupied by the Danish 

 settlements, and probably not at all in that land. 



66. Bernicla brenta (Pall.). 



On the whole coast occupied by our settlements, this Goose 

 appears only on the passage to and from its breeding-places in 

 the very high latitudes to the north of the 73rd degree. 



67. Bernicla leucopsis (Bechst.). 



According to Holboll, this species, in autumn, regularly visits 



