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10 Alca arotica. 



20 Alca alee. 



21 Procellari* pelagic a. 



22 Procellaria glacialis. 



23 Uriagrylle. 



25 Colymbus immer. 



26 Colymbus glacialis. 



27 Larus rissa. 



28 Larus eburneus. 



29 Sterna hirundo. 



24 Uriatroile. 



We found no description of reptiles whatever on the island. 

 Fish are in abundance, but with few varieties. 

 The following 1 are the several kinds: 

 1 Pleuronectus hippoglossus. 



2 Pleuronectus flesns. 



3 Nalrno salar. 



4 Salmo trutta. 



5 Gadus morliua. 



6 Cyclopterus lumpus. . , .,ill 1o 



7 Anarrhicas lupus. 



8 Squalus glaucus. 



The seas which wash these coasts abound with the molusca 

 and radiaire, but the short time of our residence in the island 

 did not permit us to notice them all. The most common spe- 

 cies are the doris stellata and pi/osa, the clios borealis and 

 limacina, the asterias glacialis, the medusa capillata, and the 

 new kind which I have described under the name of idya. 

 Is/andica. 



The shells contain several new species of the tellina, the 

 patella, and the buccinum ; we also met with a very large 

 species of mediole, the pecten Islundicus, the buccinum nuda<- 

 twnt, and the lapillus; also some species of the trochus, of the 

 meretrix mercatoria ; as also of the common muscle and the 

 sea-urchin, which are very good eating. 



Insects are no strangers to the climate, notwithstanding its 

 extreme rigour ; but they are few in number, and mostly of 

 the order of dipteres, and of the genera culex, tipula, syr- 

 phus, and bibio of Linneeus. I also met with a new species 

 of the curculio, or weasle ; and a very singular kind of night- 

 bird. 



There are several of the crustaceous kind, such as the 

 cancer, or crab ; the mqja, the crangon, pnlu:mnn, r/ammarus, 

 &c.; and among the Zoophytes, some very beautiful species 

 of corallines. 



Such are part of the observations that I made during a stay 

 of eighteen days, as well from my own researches as from the 

 conversation with the physician to the governor, Van Tramp, 

 a very intelligent character, who came at times to visit us, with 

 all his suite, during our residence at Patrix Fiord. This gen- 

 tleman, who had studied in the university of Upsal, had been 

 a pupil of Linnaeus. 



A traveller that should make a longer residence in the island, 

 and penetrate further into the interior, would find there a mul- 

 titude of new facts, the narrative of which would be extremely 

 interesting ; this country, I repeat it, is almost entirely new to 

 us with respect to its scientific reports and relations. 



