410 Capt. H. W. Feilden on the Birds observed 



I have struck the old birds with my gun-barrel when warding 

 off their attacks as I plundered their nests. This species can 

 easily be distinguished from its near ally, S. parasiticus, at 

 every age, by the mottled colour of the tarsus and webs of 

 the feet, which in S. parasiticus are black. 



16. Procellaria glacialis. Fulmar. 



Common in the north water of Baffin Bay ; and individuals 

 followed our ships until we entered the pack off Cape Sabine. 

 On the 26th June, 1876, Lieutenant Parr and I, when travel- 

 ling on the coast of Grinnell Land (lat. 82° 30'N.), observed one 

 of these birds ; and a few days later Lieutenant Egerton found 

 one dead on the shore some two miles further to the north- 

 ward. We did not observe this species again till our return 

 to Baffin Bay in September 1876. 



17. Uria grylle. Black Guillemot. 



The Dovekie was found breeding at various spots along the 

 shores of Smith Sound and northward, notably at Washington- 

 Irving Island, Dobbin Bay, Cape Hayes, and Bessels Bay ; it 

 does not, I think, breed north of Cape Union. I saw two or 

 three examples feeding in pools on the floe as far north as 

 lat. 82° 33' ; but they were evidently mere stragglers. 



18. Mergulus alle. Little Auk. 



The north water of Baffin Bay is the summer home of 

 countless numbers of these birds ; they do not, however, pene- 

 trate in any numbers far up Smith Sound, the most northern 

 point where I observed them being in Buchanan Strait (lat. 

 79°) . I do not think that they breed to the north of Foulke 

 Fiord ; but the talus at the base of the cliffs that flank that 

 inlet is occupied by myriads of them during the nesting-season. 

 On the 28th July, we found the young just hatched ; they are 

 in that stage covered with black down. From the large amount 

 of bones and feathers lying around the huts of the Esquimo 

 village of Etah, it is evident that these birds contribute largely 

 to the support of the Arctic Highlanders during summer. 



19. Alga bruennichii. Bruennich's Guillemot. 



1 observed two individuals of this species in August as far 



