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A. L. V. Manniche. 



June 5»! 1907. Lat. 81° n. 12 Ivory-Gulls flocked near the tent, 

 before which a killed seal was lying. One Gull was shot and eaten 

 by the sledge-dogs. All the gulls observed were quite white and 

 proved not to be sh}'. Open water was near. 



June 6th 1907. Lat. 80° 57' n. Ivory-Gulls in abundance by a 

 seal killed by a bear. By the carcass of a shot seal and by that 

 of a walrus were also many Gulls. 



June 9"! to lO'h 1907. Lat. 80° 20' to 80° 10' n. Some 50 Ivory- 

 Gulls observed at the bird clifTs. 



Fiff. 12. Where the Ivorv-Gulls nests were found. 



June nth 1907. Lat. ca. 80° n. 2 Ivory-Gulls observed. 



June 12th 1907. Lat. 79° 40' n. 4 Ivory-Gulls. 



The Eskimo Tobias Gabrielsen visited Renskæret June 28th 

 1908 though the travelling was very difficult; at the eastern coast 

 he found 3 nests of Ivory-Gulls, one of them contained two little 

 incubated eggs, the others each one fresh egg. One of the eggs 

 from the clutch first mentioned was broken on the way back to 

 the ship. At the nests 7 Gulls were observed; three of them were 

 secured and came into my possession. 



They proved to be old, quite white birds; the one — a female 

 — had a breeding-spot. 



