406 P- Freuchen. 



Male, length down back 1.35 flippers 0.89 m 

 Male _ _ — 1.17 — 0.77 m 



Shot one in the water same day; this one sank and was lost. 



8. Polar Bear. Ursus maritimus. 



Saw tracks of a bear a little to the west of Cape Rigsdagen, leading 

 due north. The animal had come from the landward side. 



9. Reindeer. Rangifer tarandus. 



Both at Cape Schmelck and in Adam Bierings Land, as also in 

 Game Land, we found numerous antlers of reindeer. All were more or 

 less disintegrated, and overgrown with algæ. The animal itself is pro- 

 bably extinct here ; our expedition being dependent upon game for food, 

 we naturally explored the country pretty thoroughly in search of same, 

 and could thus hardly have failed to notice tracks or excrements, if 

 not the animals themselves, had any such still existed. 



10. Greenland Whale? Balæna mysticetus? 



On the 12th June, on the coast of Independence Fjord near Cape 

 Harald Moltke, we found a number of bones, the remains of a whale, 

 species uncertain. The coast land here is formed in flat levels, arranged 

 terrace wise, consisting of raised beaches. The bones lay some 20 metres 

 from the shore, at a height of about 10 metres. A number of them lay 

 scattered about, some partly buried in the gravel. One was recognis- 

 able as a portion of a vertebra. This piece weighed about 20 kg. The 

 whole find strongly resembles that made by the Danmark Expedition 

 at Sælsøen. 



Birds. 



1. Snow bunting. Emberiza nivalis. 



On the 9th April we saw the first snow bunting at Neqe, while 

 halting there preparatory to making the ascent. 



On the 9th May we reached land on the east coast, behind Dan- 

 marks Fjord; even while still up on the ice we could hear the snow bun- 

 tings twittering on the land below. We found them everywhere we 

 went, and they seemed more numerous here than at Smith Sound. 



On the 20th May we saw a large flock of snow buntings in Zigzag 

 Valley. Numerous everywhere. 



On the 4th June we saw five of them flying across Independence 

 Fjord. 



15th June, Peary Land, base of Independence Fjord. Snow bun- 

 ting more numerous here than anywhere hitherto seen. 



