The terrestrial mammals and birds of North-East Greenland. 



179 



For the zoological museum in Copenhagen was collected the 

 skins of 11 full-grown birds and 2 chicks, and also 4 full-grown 

 young ones in spirit and 12 eggs. 



The following measures have been taken: 



Sex Age 



г ad. 



c? - 

 c? - 

 J* - 

 ? - 

 ? - 



c? juv. 



cT - 



г - 

 г - 



Fledgling 1^/8 06 



— Aug. 06 



— ^»/8 06 



— Aug. 06 



— l-'/8 06 



Date 



20/6 08 

 I'/s 06 



1^/8 06 

 ^'/8 06 



2«/g 08 

 ^h 07 



i-^'s 06 



•^2/8 06 

 1^/8 06 

 13/8 06 



Locality 

 Stormkap 



The ship's- harbour 



Hvalrosodden 



Stormkap 



Koldewey-Islands 



Hvalrosodden 

 The ship's-harbour 



Koldewey-Islands 

 The ship's-harbour 



Stormkap 



2-1/.; 08. Stormkap ! \ 

 Щ(, 08. — 1 2 



2«/n 08. 



(1 



\2 



56 

 56 



51 

 51 



53 

 53 



Wing 

 mm. 



303 

 301 

 293 

 292 

 301 

 305 



269 



289 

 289 

 285 

 242 

 236 

 237 

 243 

 269 



Bill 

 mm. 



26 

 26 

 27 

 29 

 29 

 27 



30 

 28 

 26 

 25 

 25 

 25 

 28 

 30 

 25 



Eggs. 

 Length Breadth 



40 

 40 



36 

 36 



36 

 36 



Tarsus 

 mm. 



43 

 41 

 41 

 40 

 41 

 42 



^ Throat, alxlomen and mantle strongly 

 38 Ч mottled. Tail feathers but little elon 



42 { 

 40 



gated. 



The back mottled. The one tail-feather 

 full-grown, the other quite short. 



/ Normally coloured; neck yellow, 



41 

 40 

 40 

 42 

 43 

 38 



\ tail-feathers little elongated. 



/ Mantle and breast mottled. 



\ Tail-feathers of unequal length. 



Pale varietj'. 



Dark variety, 

 {'ale variety. 



^/c 08. Storm кар | \ 



12 



20/g 08. Stormkap 1 



2«/e 08. — 1 



Fig. 19. Buffons Skua circling over nest. 



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