130 A. L. V. Manniche. 



Purple Sandpiper. Tringa maritima L. 



I met on the expedition only three times with solitary Purple 

 Sandpipers, though these birds occur frequently in so many other 

 places in Greenland. 



June 11"^ 1908. By Havlitsøen on Stormkap I met with an old 

 male, which walked on the beach of the lake in company with a 

 Sanderling. 



June 15*h 1908. On a plain by Stormkap I observed an old 

 female in company with a Tringa alpina. 



June 17*'^ 1908. On the moor by the ship's-harbour an old 

 female walked amongst some other small waders. 



The skins of the two last mentioned birds were brought home 

 for the zoological museum in Copenhagen. 



Brønlund mentions in his posthumous diary that a flock of 

 small waders was observed on the shore of Mylius Erichsens 

 Land. Judging from the description, these birds may have been 

 Tringa maritima. 



However I consider the Purple Sandpiper to be only an acci- 

 dental visitor to the tracts explored by the expedition. 



On the two birds collected, the following measures have been taken : 



Sex Age 



? ad. 



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Knot. Tringa camitiis L. 



Through the whole of the summer the Knot resided in the 

 country between Stormelv and Snenæs — a tract some 10 km. 

 long. I only exceptionally saw the species outside this place and 

 never far from it, though I found the same sort of conditions in 

 several other districts. It is, however, not impossible, that a few 

 couple may nest in the district N. and W. of Hvalrosodden, where 

 excellent localities are to be found; here I twice met with old birds. 



The sledge parties of the expedition did not with certainty 

 observe this species. 



When I visited Stormkap and the surrounding country the 

 first time (August 18"^ 1906), I found here and there on the sandy 

 fresh-water banks and on the irrigated sandy slopes foot-prints of 

 the Knot, but by this time the birds themselves had already left 

 the countrv. 



