THE ZOOLOGIST 
FOR — 
1876. 
Hunting and Animal Life in East Greenland. 
[Tue following somewhat lengthy chapter is extracted from the second 
volume of Captain Koldewey’s narrative of the “ German Arctic Expedition.” 
It is the joint production of Lieutenant Payer and Dr. Copeland, the 
scientific naturalists to the Expedition, and sets forth more clearly than any 
other document recently published the subjects of which it treats, viz. hunting 
and animal life in the Arctic Regions, and forms a remarkable contrast to 
the details of African research, of which more especially we have lately had 
such interesting examples in the ‘ Zoologist.’ I have in no instance tres- 
passed on the province of what is called “ Systematic Zoology,” having 
carefully avoided the discussion of all moot points of nomenclature, or what 
~ are called the “ grand results of science.” I have taken Captain Koldewey’s 
book in hand with a widely different object, and have omitted all scientific 
names, with the view of escaping contraversy on this, the dryest and most 
unprofitable of all dry and unprofitable subjects. When I say that, amongst 
other alterations, the names of “snow bunting” and “ Larus eburneus” are 
coupled together as synonyms, I shall disclose a fact equally perplexing to 
the “ birds-nesting” ornithologist of the old school and gratifying to the 
“name-changing” student of the new. Far be it from me to criticise such 
changes, but as a very old man I trust my readers will pardon me for not 
adopting them.— Edward Newman.] 
Huntine often begins in Greenland where it ends with us—in 
self-defence ; but it possesses scientific interest for the zoologist, 
and the food obtained by it enables the explorer to remain longer 
away from the ship. There is the zoological, the geographical and 
the pleasure hunt; the latter is of the least frequent occurrence. 
Hunting the bear or the walrus is attended with considerable 
danger; that of the musk-ox, reindeer, fox, birds, and sea animals 
affords only amusement. 
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