The terrestrial mammals and birds of North-East Greenland. 65 



Sex. Age Date Designation of place mm. 



Ç ad, '^^Is 06 Hvalrosodden The cranium 231 



(The musk-ox Lower carnassial 30 



mountains) Thigh-bone 211 



Upper arm 201 



? ad. 27/3 08 The ship's harbour The cranium 222 



Lower carnassial 29 



(The remaining parts of 

 skeleton are wanting) 



? ad. ^/2 09 Hvalrosodden Thigh-bone 216 



Upper arm 203 



(The cranium has been put 

 into a stuffed skin) 



The two craniums — c? ^^/2 08 and Ç '^^/3 08 — have on the 

 upper jaw a third well developed true molar. 



Polar bear. Ursus maritimus L. 



The polar bear was generally to be found at all times of the 

 year as well on the field-ice as in the inlets, more rarely on land. 

 Northernmost the species was met with at lat. 81°7' п., where Koch's 

 sledge party shot a young she-bear in April 1907. According to the 

 statement of Koch the travelling-party of Mylius-Erichsen is said 

 to have observed a single bear trace at "Danmarks Fjord", conse- 

 quently still a little more to the north. 



As soon as the ship during the passage up came into compara- 

 tively tightly packed ice, bears or the traces of these animals were 

 seen daily. The first bear traces were observed on August 2"^** 1906 

 at lat. 75°40' n. The traces led from a deep lair in the snow which 

 the bear had made near the edge of some up-screwed ice. On Au- 

 gust 4'^^ a rather young male bear was shot in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of the ship, and on August 10*^^ a young female, also close 

 by the ship. In the stomach of the latter I found a few leaves of 

 sea-weed; otherwise the two bear stomachs were empty. The killed 

 animals had shown themselves extraordinarily curious and not very 

 cautious, the hunters who were sent out from the ship coming quite 

 close to them without the least difficulty. Judging from the beha- 

 viour of the bears it might seem even as if the latter were inclined 

 to attack; with strongly bent knees and sneaking movements they 

 stole away to the edge of the ice, where they were crouching down 

 ready to throw themselves on the boat which came towards them 



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