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probably the hair change takes place in the beginning of Sep- 

 tember; already on September 16, 1869, the Germania-men saw 

 a white fox. 



Ryder found remains of fox in the Eskimo hamlets at 

 Scoresby Sund. 



Canis lupus L. Arctic Wolf. 



When Nathorst in 1899 was staying on the coast of East 

 Greenland, he met on July 15, at Cape Berghaus, with some 

 Norwegian whalers, who were there with their boats, and Cap- 

 tain Næsø of «Cecilie Malene» gave Nathorst the remarkable 

 intelligence, that he a few days before had killed a white Wolf 

 at Cape Berghaus, and seen another in Clavering Island (Nat- 

 horst, I.e. II, p. 156). This discovery of the arctic wolf in 

 East Greenland was very remarkable, and the more so, as none 

 of the former expeditions had seen the least of it neither the 

 Germans nor Ryder, and both these expeditions had stayed in 

 winter on the coast. As also the reindeer has decreased 

 numerically very much in these places, where it was so com- 

 mon before, Nathorst means that the arctic wolf not till a few 

 years ago has immigrated to East Greenland , to Scoresby 

 Sund not till after 1892. It is before known from the northern 

 parts of America, from Grinnell Land, in the north west part of 

 Greenland, and Peary and Astrup saw its traces at Independence 

 Bay on the north-east coast of Greenland; and in 1869 a wolf 

 was killed at Umanak in West Greenland ; probably it has walked 

 over the ice of Baffln's Bay from America. Nathorst found its 

 traces in Kierulf Inlet, in Ymer's Island; and in the bottom of 

 Hurry Inlet 2 wolves, walking together, were seen on August 5, 

 1899. The day after they were seen together on Vargodden, 

 but escaped both times. 



During our expedition, traces of the wolf were seen in 

 numerous places , also South of Scoresby Sund. At Cape 

 Dalton traces of wolves were seen in several places ; in Turner 



