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they will set out at dawn to hunt, and late in the afternoon they 

 return to their night-lodgings with a high direct flight. When 

 wounded or scared by a shot, they will almost always rush to the 

 rocks. 



The Ravens proved usually extremely cautious without however 

 being really shy. Especially old birds showed extreme sagacity in 

 their judgement of a situation. Ravens would often appear at the 

 tents to partake of the thrown out leavings, and they soon became 

 confident if we omitted to shoot at them or to annoy them in 

 other manners. During a lengthy stay in a tent, Mylius-Erichsen 

 every day had a visit of a Raven, which he fed with leavings from 

 his meals; at last the bird became so confident, Ihat it slept every 

 night on the roof of his tent. 



The Raven from N. E. Greenland utters flying — more seldom 

 sitting — a cry, which differs very much from that of the European 

 race — a high toned ringing trill, that sometimes sounds like a sort 

 of song. I seldom heard the bird produce the usual cry of a Raven. 



The skins of 6 Ravens were collected for the zoological museum 

 in Copenhagen. The following measurements have been taken: 



Sex Age Date Locality Wing Bill Tarsus 



mm. mm. mm. 



69 

 68 

 75 

 71 

 72 

 70 



Wheatear. Saxicola ocimnthc (L.) 



May 31^^ 1908 I met with two female Wheatears on the gravel 

 banks at Stormkap. From the top of large single stones the birds 

 would rush down to the ground to catch passing insects and spiders. 



When I had shot the one bird, the other became extremely shy 

 and soon after disappeared on the other side of the gravel banks. 



In the stomach of the killed bird I found remnants of spiders 

 and larvæ of butterflies (Dasychira Groenlandica). 



The country — especially at Stormkap — offered the most ex- 

 cellent locality for Wheatears; the fact, that the species was only 

 observed once may therefore prove, that the northern limit for its 

 distribution is here surpassed. 



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