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rationally explored there may be found also in the littoral region 

 some comparatively southern fish-species. May not also the 

 circumstance that the Capelan [Mallotus villosus Müll.) has not 

 been observed to resort to the coast to spawn, farther north than 

 Angmagsallk (compare p. 275 — 76), point in the same direction? 

 So much may be said with regard to the littoral fauna that 

 though it is arctic on the whole a degree of difference asserts 

 itself between the southmost and the more northerly coast as 

 the latter is inhabited by certain high-arctic species of animals 

 which are not found at the former part^). 



The pelagic fish life off East-Greenland is hardly known at 

 all. The frequent occurence of the Polar-cod [Gadus saida Lep.) 

 (and other shore-forms) among the field-ice is very interesting 

 (compare p. 267 — 68). 



In the fresh waters of East-Greenland only two species of 

 fishes are found viz. the Threespined Stickleback [Gasterosteus 

 aculeatus L. var. gymnurus C.V.) and the Arctic Charr [Salmo 

 alpinus L.) ; the last named however lives part of the time in 

 fresh, and part of the time in salt water (compare p. 274). 



With respect to a judgment of the quantitative composition 

 of the fish-fauna we have only few data to go by, as only few 

 hauls were made with appliances fit for the catching of fish. 

 Yet it seems as if certain coast-fishes are found in rather large 

 numbers. By a sweep with an eel-seine which the Zoologist 

 Sören Jensen made at Angmagsalik in the middle of Sep- 

 tember 1900, and where the seine was drawn from 9 fathoms 

 to the shore, no less than 120 fishes were thus caught 

 consisting chiefly of: Gymnacanthus tricuspis, Cottus scorpius, 

 Icelus bicornis, Triglops pingelii and Gadus saida. Another 

 sweep with eel-seine at Jameson Land in Hurry Inlet (at the 



Where the boundary is situated between the zoo-geographical "southern» 

 and "northern» coast, cannot be determined at the present time, as 

 the coast from Angmagsalik to Кар Dalton zoologically is practically 

 unexplored. 



