autumn time (see Ryder, Medd. om Grønl., XVII, 1895, p. 66), 

 already from September 7, 1891, the temperature was below 

 zero during the day. We must therefore suppose that the 

 litter of leverets , evidently born about the middle of August, 

 cannot be the only litter, for the proper summertime comes 

 before, and we must take it for granted that the polar hare 

 has also bred in that time. 



Ryder found its bones near the old hamlets of the Eskimo. 



Nyodes torquatus Pall. Lemmiog. 



While the ship of Scoresby the elder was in Hurry Inlet, 

 in 1822, the crew found in Jameson Land 2 or 3 Lemmings 

 which they brought on board the ship (Scoresby jun., Journ. of 

 a Voyage to the Northern Whale -Fishery, 1823, p. 416). Dr. 

 Traill described it under the name of Mîis Groenlandicus \ but 

 already Prof. Jameson (Scoresby, 1. c. App. Zoology) lays stress 

 on its near relationship with Myodes Hudsonius; later inquiries 

 have shown that both of them are identical with Myodes tor- 

 quatiis (Pallas), and thus the species is circumpolar. During 

 the second German expedition one specimen was caught, in Sep- 

 tember 1869, one was seen in Sabine Island at the Eskimo 

 ruin near Germaniahafen, immediately after the arrival there , a 

 dead animal was found in Shannon Island, its traces were seen 

 in the snow in Walrus Island on November 7 1869, and in 

 1870 numerous excrements of foxes, with bones and hairs of 

 the lemming, were found in Walrus Island. During the expedition 

 of Ryder some few specimens were observed ; one was found 

 dead in Føhnfjord on May 15, 1892; on June 25 one was found, 

 mummified, in Danmarks 0, both in winter dress; in the 

 beginning of June a living lemming in summer dress was caught 

 in Gaasefjord, and on June 30, a specimen in summer dress 

 was found in the stomach of a Buffon's skua. But during the 

 winter, numerous traces of it were seen in Danmarks 



