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From the above it follows that Zedlitz' remark (1911a, p. 214) 

 that adult and young King-Eiders are to be found in the fjord, is 

 not true, generally speaking. For the Common Eider-ducklings this 

 is correct. These are never to be found in the freshwater-ponds. 



Summarizing my observations, I can state that the King-Eider is 

 a common bird in Tundra Boheman, that the males leave the 

 females and go to the open sea, when the latter are breeding and 

 that the ducklings are brought up in the tundra. I suppose that 

 they do not go to the fjord before they can fly, but this I could 

 not observe, for the young were numerous in the tundra till Aug. 

 24, when I left our settlement"[|für my second Icefjord-trip. 



Fulmarus glacialis glacialis (L.), the Fulmar Petrel. 



Fulmarus glacialis (L.), Trevor Battye (1897), p. 595. 

 Fulmarus glacialis (L.), Kolthoff (1903), p. 75. 

 Fulmarus glacialis glacialis Linn., Schalow (1904), p. 151. 

 Fulmarus glacialis (L.), le Roi (1911), p. 204. 

 Fulmarus glacialis glacialis L., Zedlitz (1911), p. 316. 



cT, shore near Cape Boheman, July 7, 1921. 

 cT, shore near Cape Boheman, Aug. 5, 1921. 



The Fulmar occurs in a dark- and a pale-coloured form. In Spits- 

 bergen and the Arctic Ocean the dark form dominates. Pale-coloured 

 specimens with white heads are frequently met with, however, but 

 their breasts are never as white as those of a gull. All transitional 

 stages between the two forms are found in Icefjord, where the 

 Fulmar is the commonest bird. 



In fine weather and in storm large numbers always passed Cape 

 Boheman to and from their breeding haunts, situated high up the 

 mountains of Ekman and Dickson Bay. In beautiful sunny weather 

 most flew high in the air or skimmed the sea, in a straight line 

 to their homes ; in stormy weather, however, when they like to feed 

 in the fjord, they always exactly followed the coast-line with its 

 many bays and inlets. This voiceless, tireless bird with its magni- 

 ficent flight and its round anxious eyes, which give it a somewhat 

 owlish expression, cannot walk. This can easily be observed when 

 they feed on a dead whale-body, lying on the shore. They can reach 

 it only by swimming, when the water is high. 



Their food consists chiefly of garbage, but sea-animals are also 



