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which creates resonance in the mouth in the same way as 

 when one blows over the edge of a jar with a httle opening 

 or into a shell. This sound is considered especially difficult 

 to imitate. — The same kind of seal may also be decoyed by 

 the sound which is produced when the mouth is filled with 

 air which is then expelled through the tightly closed lips. — 

 A third decoy-sounds for seals is A-^^'''^"«) A: (*''''"e) A: *'b's«ie) 

 ^ ^ ^S ^ etc. (G sharp — F sharp), with rapid tempo; 

 first a whispered A:, then a short, falling whistle, both slurred. 



In how far reindeer and sharks are decoyed by sounds I 

 was unable to find out. — But Ka'wartaq gave me a number of 

 sounds for such birds as are only seldom hunted, namely for 



The raven {tulmoaq): [дао qao] (A — F sharp) with a 

 trilled uvular q. 



The wagtail (kusdk, Kl. diet, кидзак or kugsagtaK): 

 [hwoit dsd dsd dsd dsd dsd] Ç^ *^^j^^j^j^j voiceless, the first 

 part short and suddenly rising (from A to C), the last part 

 chromatically falling. 



The young wagtails: [tùPe] or [t^uw^- t*uwi-] (A С A) 

 in a falsetto voice. 



? {sujciq^ a little bird, partly white, partly black): [pfw4\ 

 (A — C) in a falsetto voice. 



Sparrow (uarsarmiutaq): [matuUriuaq tctiùp tctiùp]. 



In closing, just a few of the sounds which the North 

 Greenlander uses (in addition to his whip) in driving the dogs 

 harnessed to his sledge. They no doubt vary a good deal from 

 place to place. Those I used myself I learned at Jakobshavn: 

 a sign for the dogs to stop (by whistling), one for tln^m to go 

 faster: [s- s-] or [häpli^äp]^ one for them to go to the left: 

 [iw 4w] with a high falsetto voice, and one for them to go 

 to the right [ililH iliPi], Ukewise with a high (rising) falsetto 

 voice. 



