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as U. Carbo. Whether these were exceptional varieties of the 
normal form, or examples which had accidentally wandered from 
their proper habitats is a question which cannot be decided—but 
in the latter case the question has an important geographical aspect, 
as tending to show the occasional means of water communication 
between opposite parts of the circumpolar region. 
*Rotge or Little Auk (Mergulus alle). “ Akpalliarsuk,” “ Kaer- 
rak.”—Said not to breed further south than lat. 68° N., but, though 
its great stations are in the northern parts of Baffin’s Sea, not to be 
common in the Polar Sea. Found also in East Greenland. 
+Willock or Common Guillemot (Alca troile).—Two examples 
sent by Holbéll from Godthaab, where, and perhaps in other 
places on the coast, it breeds, but still, to all appearance, very 
rarely. Its variety, A. lacrymans, seems to be still more rare in 
Greenland. 
*Bruennich’s Guillemot (Alca arra). “ Akpa.”’—Doubtless the 
commonest bird on the Greenland coasts, but said not to breed 
south of lat.64°N. Occurred on Parry’s Second Voyage. Holbdll 
met with three specimens entirely black, two near Godthaab and 
one at the Sukkertop, but all in winter! Some recent writers 
have most unreasonably questioned, or even denied, the specific 
distinction of this and the foregoing. 
+ Razorbill (Alca torda). “ Akparnak,” “ Akpartluk.”—Not rare 
either in the Northern or Southern Inspectorate, but not hitherto 
observed on the East Coast. 
Gare-fowl or Great Auk (Alca impennis). “Isarokitsok.”— 
The earliest discovery of this remarkable and interesting spe- 
cies in Greenland was in or about the year 1574, when an 
Icelander, by name Clemens, visited certain islands on the 
east coast, then called Gunnbjarnareyjar, and since identified 
with Danell’s or Graah’s Islands, lying in lat. 652 20’ N., 
whereon he found it so plentiful that he loaded his boat with 
the birds. It has not since been known to occur on that coast. 
Bruennich, in 1764, did not mention Greenland as a locality 
for it. Fabricius, in 1780, while giving its Esquimaux name, 
says that it was rarely scen on the outer islands, and that in 
winter; he had, however, examined a young bird, only a few 
days old, taken in August. Old birds, he adds, were very rare. 
The Museum of Copenhagen possesses a specimen, said to 
have been killed on Disco in 1821, but this is very possibly 
