CATALOGUE 



OF 



THE BIRDS OF GREENLAND. 



HPHE following Catalogue is based on the works of Hoi- 

 boll, Reinhardt, Alfred Newton, Ludwig Kumlien, and 

 others ; use has also been made of the late Alfred Benzon's 

 collection of bird-skins and eggs. By utilizing abundant 

 material gathered by Benzon, who for a number of years 

 received eggs and skins of birds from the various settle- 

 ments in Greenland, and by adding thereto my own obser- 

 vations, I am able to present a more complete record than 

 has been given in any list hitherto published on the birds of 

 Greenland, especially as regards their breeding-seasons. I 

 have also been able to add two species which had not been 

 discovered before in Greenland. 



The Catalogue comprises all the birds discovered up to 

 date in that part of western Greenland which is settled by 

 Danes ; namely, the country lying south of 73 N. lat. 

 This is divided at 68 N. lat. into North Greenland and 

 South Greenland. 



As it is often impossible to determine to what variety a 

 bird belongs by merely examining its eggs, and as the eggs 

 and skins which Mr. Benzon obtained from Greenland were 

 collected chiefly by men who lacked ornithological know- 

 ledge, I have made it a rule, in using his material, to pay no 



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