PREFACE. 



r I ^HEOUGH Mr. Chamberlain's kind assistance 

 there was published in " The Auk," Vol. VI., 

 Nos. 3 and 4, an article on the birds of Ivigtut, the 

 result of my observations during fifteen months' 

 residence at that place. 



Since that article was written, I have spent an- 

 other fifteen months in the same locality, and have 

 been able to add considerably to my previous notes. 

 It is partly because of this, and partly because a few 

 errors crept into my former article, errors due to 

 my imperfect knowledge of English and to insuffi- 

 cient mail service between Greenland and the North 

 American continent (only twice a year), that I 

 have expressed the wish to publish as complete a 

 description of the birds of Ivigtut as my two and a 

 half years' residence there enables me to write ; and 

 with characteristic liberality Mr. Chamberlain has 

 undertaken the entire responsibility of bringing out 

 an American edition. At his request I have also 



