10 BIRDS OF IVIGTUT. 



PUFFIN. 

 FBATEBCTTLA ABCHCA. 



An old bird was harpooned at Arsuk on the 15th of 

 July, 1887. 



BLACK G-UILLEMOT. 

 CEPPHTIS GETILE. 



Very common throughout the year. Breeds in colonies 

 of two to thirty pair among the precipitous cliffs along 

 the fjord, during the middle and latter part of June. 

 There is considerable variation In the time when the dif- 

 erent individuals moult. In April some have donned their 

 summer garb, while others are still in their winter clothing. 

 On the 13th of July I shot one which already had gray 

 feathers among the black. 



BRUNNICH'S MURRE. 

 TTBIA lOMVIA. 



A winter visitor, — the last seen May 30, 1886 ; the first 

 returning seen Nov. 9, 1886, and on the next day they 

 were common. During the following winter, which was 

 very cold, these birds gathered by thousands on the fjord. 

 On the 16th of April they were still numerous ; but on 

 the 25th of that month most of them had gone. Yet 

 I saw on the 4th of June small groups of from two to 

 five each, and on the 20th of June two single birds. In 

 the winter of 1887-88, a comparatively mild winter, though 

 the fjord remained almost completely covered with ice, I 

 did not observe any of this species until the 27th of Decem- 

 ber, and then only a few single individuals, and these were 



