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mann saw swarms of them in Fleming Inlet in the last part 

 of August. 



Cystophora cristata Erxl. Crested Seal. 



Poulsen saw the Crested Seal singly along the coast to the 

 North of Angmagsalik, in September 1898, and in summer 

 1899. According to the sayings of the Greenlanders, it 

 arrives at Angmagsalik in April, from the North, in small num- 

 bers, and again disappears in the last part of May; in July it 

 returns in greater numbers, yet not in swarms, also from the 

 North, and after that it is to be seen till later in autumn. In 

 April it is accompanied by its young. — Also according to the 

 communications of Johan Petersen most of them come in July. 



In the floating ice outside the northern part of the east 

 coast, between Jan Mayen and Sabine Island, many were to be 

 seen in the last part of June, and the first part of July 1900, 

 a few also near land. 



Rangifer tarandus L. Reindeer. 



Scoresby is the first who has given informations of the 

 Reindeer in East Greenland; he found numerous horns and bones 

 of it, in the old Eskimo hamlets at Cape Stewart, Cape Swainson, 

 Gape Hope, and on the south side of Scoresby Sund at 

 Cape Brewster. Also Scoresby's father found rests of it at 

 Cape Simpson (Traill Island) in an Eskimo hamlet, but 

 no living reindeer was seen; in Scoresby's list of animals 

 of East Greenland (1. с App. Zoology) it is not put down. 

 Clavering and Sabine did not see it , but during the second 

 German arctic expedition, (1869 — 1870) it was observed in 

 greater numbers from lat. 75° N. southward until Franz Joseph's 

 Fjord, and it was observed in swarms of nearly 30 animals. 

 Ryder's expedition (1891 — 92) found it in very great numbers 

 in the regions round Scoresby Sund, in Jameson Land, at 

 the Nordbugt in Vestfjord and Gaasefjord, besides in smaller 



