36 A. L. V. Manniche. 



by foxes, ermines, snowy owls and ravens. According to my expe- 

 rience the alpine hare does not undertake real migrations. 



The hares, which lived on the fells near the ship's-harbour, 

 were nearly stationary all the year round; only in winter they un- 

 dertook short excursions to the shore or to adjacent isles, from 

 which they returned sooner or later. 



For the zoological Museum in Copenhagen were — among other 

 preparations — collected the skins of 10 hares, which were shot at 

 different seasons, 16 crania and some embryos. 



The following measures of crania have been taken: 



Lemming. Myodes torquatus (Pall.). 



In Greenland the species is bound exclusively to the northern- 

 most and northeastern parts of the country. About the extension 

 and biology of the animal some interesting observations exist which 

 have been rendered in "Grønlands Pattedyr" by H. Winge. 



The lemming appeared extremely common in the tracts visited 

 by the "Danmark Expedition". As well on the highest mountain crests 

 as on the lowest lying stretches of fen- and meadow land, as well 

 near the inmost creeks of the fjord — ay, even far out on the in- 

 land ice — as on the little islands and rocks lying next the sea, 

 one might be sure to meet with this peculiar little rodent animal, 

 or to find at least unmistakable signs of its presence. 



Most numerous I found the species in August and September 

 1906 in the low, fertile coast country lying between R)фefjeldet and 



