26 A. L. V. Manniche. 



List of 



the terrestrial mammals of North-East Greenland. 



1. Lepus variabilis var. glacialis. 



2. Myodes torqvatus. 



3. Canis lagopus. 



4. Canis lupus. 



5. Ursus maritimus. 



6. Mustela erminea. 



7. Ovibos moschatus. 



8. (Rangifer tarandus.) 



The Alpine Hare. Lepus variabilis Pall, 

 var. glacialis Leach. 



This species may — according to existing reports — be consi- 

 dered of comparatively scarce occurrence on the east coast of Green- 

 land, south of 76° lat. 



(A concise account of these reports is given in H. Winge's: 

 Grønlands Pattedyr. — Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. 21, 2"«* division.) 



The alpine hare proved to be very common in the regions 

 which were explored by the "Danmark Expedition"; at certain places 

 it occurred indeed so abundantly that it became of economical value 

 for the expedition. 



Besides the considerable number of hares, which were shot and 

 eaten during the sledge-voyages, not less than some 400 hares were 

 brought home and consumed on board the ship during the two years 

 it was bound in the ship's-harbour, in the very neighbourhood of 

 which nearly half part of them was secured. The two small fell- 

 regions "Thermometerfjeldet" and "Harefjeldet", which are lying close 

 to the ship's-harbour, were almost always inhabited by rather many 

 hares, and at certain seasons it was by no means seldom to meet 

 with flocks containing 10 to 15 individuals. Other places in which 

 the alpine hare occurred abundantly were the country near "Hval- 

 rosodden" (especially "Rypefjeldet", "Trekroner" and "Moskusokse- 



