104 XEWTON ON BTKD? IX GREENLAND. 



nothing of countries lying nuich further to the southwai'd, whiie 

 its biveding-habits are not known with any cert^iinty, render it 

 especially an object of interest ; and any light that can be thrown 

 on its place and mode of niditication will be most valuable, for 

 there is no common bird respecting the summer-haunts of which 

 ornithologists are at present more ignorant. About the size of a 

 large Snipe, but with much shorter bill and legs, it is in summer 

 of a bright orange-red on all the lower parts, and above mottled 

 with black, reddish-brown and white, the rump being Avhite or 

 white tinged with red. In its chief breeding-quarters, wherever 

 they may be situated, it must be numerous, judging from its 

 abundance at other times of the year. Large liocks are known to 

 occiu' in Iceland, but these do not stay there many days and pass 

 on — obviously to the nortlnvard. It has not been met with on the 

 east coast of Greenland nor in Spitsbergen ; the presumption, there- 

 fore, is that the countries to the west or north of Greenland are 

 the goal of its vernal migration. 



(4/.) Macrorhamphus griseus. Brown Snipe. 

 One sent from the Fiskena^s in 1824. 



27. GalUnago media. Common Snipe. 



One received by Dr. Paulsen in 1845, but the species has been 

 so often observed in Greenland, that it may very likely breed 

 there, though positive information as to the fact is not forth- 

 coming.* 



(4?.) Limosa cegocephala. Black-tailed Godwit. " Sarg- 

 varsurksoak." 

 Fabricius seems to have seen a single specimen, and one is 

 said to have been obtained at Godthaab prior to 1820. 



(^J.) Kumcnius borcalis. Esquimaux Curlew. 



Two specimens supposed to have been of Greenland origin 

 have been received at Copenhagen ; one was brought in I808 

 and was said to have been shot at Julianehaab; about the 

 other Prof. Reinhardt knows nothing. | 



(44.) Xttmejiius hudsojiicns. Hudsoniau Curlew. 



One sent from Godthaab many years since by Holboll, 

 who says he had seen two others from Julianehaab and the 

 Fiskenaes respectively. 



28. SMi?ne?iius phceopus. Whimbrel. 



Nearly a dozen examples, sent from all parts of the country, 

 have been received, and, though Holboll doubts its doing so, 

 Prof. Reinhardt thinks that this species may breed in Greenknd. 



* The American- Snipe {GalUnago icilsi>ni) vihxch x&ry closely resembles 

 our o-wn bird, but differs in possessing sixteen instead of fourteen tail-feathers, 

 may perhaps be looked for to occur in Greenland. 



t ITiree individuals of a species of Nunienitis flew past the ships' boats in 

 Regent Inlet. (Sabine, Suppl. App. p. ccx.) 



