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June 12th 1907. Lat. 79° 40' n. 17 Brents came flying and sett- 

 led inland. 



June 13'h 1907. Lat. 79° n. A flock was seen. 



Mylius-Erichsen's sledge-party has, according to Brønlund's 

 posthumous diary, observed and secured some Brents in Mylius- 

 Erichsens Land near the coast. The diary says: June 24*^ 1907. 

 To day many Brents migrated southwards; 9 were secured. 



It can scarcely be doubted that the Brents breed in the north- 

 ern part of East-Greenland ; but I did not succeed in getting certain 

 information regarding this matter. 



For the zoological museum in Copenhagen was prepared the 

 skin of the male, which was shot June 8*^ 1907 on Koldewey-Island, 

 and upon it the following measures have been taken: 



Wing Bill Tarsus 



324 mm. ЗЗо mm. 60 mm. 



Barnacle Goose. Anser leucopsis Bechst. 



Only in one very restricted tract this bird was found. In the 

 migration period the Barnacles were now and then seen elsewhere, 

 but never far from the beforenamed place. 



The north-going party of the expedition did not record this 

 species. 



August 1906 I found feathers and droppings of Barnacles on 

 many places North and East of Lakseelven and Hvalrosodden; this 

 landscape was full of small lakes, ponds and small rivers. Here 7 

 and 2 Geese were observed respectively August 25*^ and 27'^. 



May 23'"'^ 1907 I found by the grass clad beaches of a larger 

 lake, Gaasesøen, in the country a little farther West — near the 

 rocks "Trekroner" — numerous traces of Barnacles from the pre- 

 ceeding summer. 



The fresh waters were still fully covered by ice, and the earth 

 was nearly completely hidden under heavy snow-masses. I was 

 therefore surprised as I at midnight saw a Barnacle migrating from 

 the South and flying cackling to the snow-covered fields some two 

 kilometer North of the lake. 



June 11th J observed and secured a solitary old male at a little 

 and but partly open fresh-water-pond lying in the gravel-bank-district 

 on Stormkap. 



This Goose proved so confiding that it remained quite undistur- 



