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it in liuut of one of the Eskimo huts, feeding from u pile of garbage; 

 lie also failed to t^eciire it. The bird looked to nie like an adult L. 

 franldini, a bird not hitherto taken up as belonging to the Greenland 

 fauna. 



70. Xema sabinii, (Sal).) Leach. 



On the Cth of October, 1877, on the passage from the Kikkerton 

 Islands northward, a pair of these birds kept close to the stern of the 

 schooner for many miles. I could easily have shot them, but it would 

 have been impossible to procure them had I done so. Saw no others at 

 any time. 



71. Sterna macrura, Nauru. 



''Emukitiliik," Cumbcrlaud Eskimo aud Grceulandors. 



On the 19th aud 20th of June there were thousands of these birds 

 about Annanactook Harbor, but this was also the only time I saw any. 

 The Eskimo say they breed on the Seven Islands in Cumberland some 

 years. They were first noticed in the Gidf of Saint Lawrence in Au- 

 gust. From this point they seemed more or less common along the en- 

 tire Labrador coast and the ishiuds north of Hudson's Straits, but not in 

 Cumberland. On the Greeidand coast they are abundant, in suitable 

 localities, to lat. 73° I^. In Disko Bay they are very common, and breed 

 by thousands. Thej' begin migrating southward diuing the latter daj's 

 of August, Avlien the young are large enough to take care of themselves. 

 Appeared to be plenty at the mouth of Exeter Sound, where " kaplin" 

 are very abundant. 



72. Fulmarus glacialis, Lcacli. 



••Oohudluk," Cumberland Eskimo. "Kakordluk" (white) and "Igahsook" 

 (dark), Greenlauders. 



On our outward passage these birds were first noticed oft' Belle Isle, 

 August 20. From this point nortliward their numbers increased ; they 

 were everywhere close in shore and far out at sea, at all times and in all 

 weather. Nearly all the Fulmars I saw in the autumn of 1877 Avere 

 light-colored ; saw none so dark as I did in the spring. They were very 

 common in Cumberland till the middle of October. Were especially 

 abundant off shore, Cape Chidly, Besolution Island, Grinnell Bay, and 

 Frobishcr Straits, during the latter part of August, September, and fore 

 part cf October. These were white with a pearly grey mantle and bright 

 yellow bill. I also procured a few that were ashy ; these I presumed 

 were young birds; but in July, 1878, I found a few of these dark-colored 

 ones, darker than any I ever saw in fall, breeding near Quickstej) Harbor, 



