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with any certainty, render it especially an object of interest; and 
any light that can be thrown on its place and mode of nidification 
will be most valuable, for there is no common bird respecting the 
summer haunts of which ornithologists are at present more ignorant. 
About the size of a large snipe, but with much shorter bill and legs ; 
it is in summer of a bright orange-red on all the lower parts, and 
above mottled with black, reddish brown and white, the rump being 
white or white tinged with red. In its chief breeding quarters, 
wherever they may be situated, it must be numerous, judging from 
its abundance at other times of the year. Large flocks are known 
to occur in Iceland, but these do not stay there many days and pass 
on—obviously to the northward. It has not been met with on the 
east coast of Greenland nor in Spitzbergen; the presumption, 
therefore, is that the countries to the west or north of Greenland 
are the goal of its vernal migration. 
Brown Snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus), One sent from the 
Fiskenes in 1824. 
Common Snipe (Gallinago media).—One received by Dr. Paulsen 
in 1845, but the species has been so often observed in Greenland, 
that it may very likely breed there, though positive information as 
to the fact is not forthcoming.* 
Blacktailed Godwit (Limosa egocephala). “ Sargvarsurk- 
soak.”—Fabricius seems to have seen a single specimen, and 
one is said to have been obtained at Godthaab prior to 1820. 
Esquimaux Curlew (Numenius borealis)—Two specimens 
supposed to have been of Greenland origin have been received 
at Copenhagen ; one was brought in 1858 and was said to have 
been shot at Juliauehaab; about the other Prof. Reinhardt 
knows nothing. 
Hudsonian Curlew (Numenius Hudsonicus).— One sent 
from Godthaab many years since by Holbdéll, who says he 
had seen two others from Julianehaab and the Fiskenes 
respectively. 
Whimbrel (Numenius pheopus). Nearly a dozen examples, sent 
from all parts of the country, have been received, and, though 
1 The American snipe (Gallinago Wilsoni), which very closely resembles our own 
bird, but differs in possessing sixteen instead of fourteen tail-feathers, may perhaps 
be looked for to occur in Greenland. 
? Three individuals of a species of Numenius flew past the ships’ boats in Regent 
Inlet. (Sabine, Suppl. App. p. cex.) 
