52 A. L. V. Manniche. 



wretched-looking foxes were trudging about in bogs and fens. Tufts 

 of the old hair were left in larger portions or like narrow stripes 

 all over the body of the animal. Head, neck and parts of the tail 

 were first released from the long winter hairs, and in this way the 

 physiognomy of the fox assumed an increased comical appearance. 

 An old female in the coat of the hair-shedding (killed in the end 

 of May) was brought home to the [museum. (Vid. fig. 4 pi. I). 

 All the foxes which I saw in the summer time were more or less 

 variegated in colour. 



In the end of August the hair change was completed in the 

 case of most foxes. On August 29*^^ 1907 I caught three foxes — 

 two blue and a white one — all in winter dress. Two days before 

 however I had observed a fox which had not changed its coat al- 

 together. 



To the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen the skins of 10 arctic 

 foxes in diff"erent ages and coats have been brought home. More- 

 over a couple of animals in spirits, about 40 craniums etc. 



The arctic woif, Canis lupus L. 



According to the hitherto existing observations it must be con- 

 sidered that the arctic wolf is an animal very rarely to be met with 

 in Greenland, moreover its appearance is bound exclusively to the 

 northern and north-eastern parts of the country. 



That the Greenland wolf has immigrated from arctic North 

 America — its proper home — is beyond everj' doubt. About the 

 exact time for this migration only guessings can be made as we are 

 not able to prove anything definite on basis of the comparatively 

 few investigations which have been made so far. 



In "Grønlands Pattedyr" by H. Winge everything that is known 

 about the species from Greenland until the year 1902 has been 

 gathered under the heading: Canis lupus. 



Compared with the observations of former expeditions it might 

 seem as if the arctic wolf appeared somewhat more commonly in 

 the parts visited by the Danmark Expedition than elsewhere in 

 Greenland, wolves having been seen and sure evidence of their ap- 

 pearance found, though relatively somewhat spread, from lat. To'" n. 

 (Hochstetters Forland) to lat. 83°10'n. No less than five adult wol- 

 ves w^ere killed and carried home. 



