Scaup Duck. Fiiligiila marila L. 



Of this in Greenland very rarely occurring duck^ I saw two 

 specimens, male and female, at Stormkap June 2P* 1907. 



The Scaups stayed for a long while in a little clear lake with 

 shallow water about one km. from the coast. (Bjergandesø, see the 

 шар.) 



They always avoided the company of other ducks — the Long- 

 tailed-Ducks and the King-Eiders — which were lying in the lake. 



The Scaups proved very shy in contrast to these and it was 

 not before July 2"^^ that I succeded in securing the male, where- 

 upon the female finally disappeared. 



The stomach of the male contained remnants of plants and 

 small stones. 



Judging from the sexual organs of the male, the ducks would 

 not have nested that summer. 



The skin of the male was brought home for the zoological 

 museum in Copenhagen. 



It belongs to the typical circumpolar form. 



On the fresh bird the following measurements have been taken: 



Total length Wing Bill Tarsus 



500 mm. 220 mm. 46 mm. 40 mm. 



Iris: bright yellow. The legs dark lead-coloured. 



Long-tailed-Duck. Pagonetta glacialis L. 



Very common breeding bird in N.-E. Greenland. 

 Especially in the lakes at Danmarks Havn in the territory 

 at Stormkap and the large river at Hvalrosodden this bird was 



* According to H. Winge : "Grønlands Fugle" the Scaup is I'ecorded only a few 

 times on the west coast of Greenland. On the east coast it has never appeared 

 before. 

 XLV. 7 



