BIRDS OF IVIGTUT. 26 



I met a pair whose actions suggested that they had lost 

 their young. 



On the 26th and the 29th of July I saw two female Ptar- 

 migans with their broods at the height of a hundred feet and 

 a thousand feet respectively. One brood' was half grown, 

 the other somewhat older. 



GRAY SEA EAGLE. 



HALT-EEnrS AlBICIILA. 



Common, nesting in all suitable places. It is most numer- 

 ous in winter, especially when north winds prevail. On one 

 occasion I saw twelve Eagles and again fourteen on the fjord. 

 I frequently observed them pursuing my Doves, though these 

 did not seem to fear their pursuers, but would rather tanta- 

 lize them by circling around them. On one occasion one of 

 these Eagles tried to get some liver which was being trolled 

 after a boat, as bait for Gulls. As it did so, a shot was fired 

 at it, but it escaped unhurt. A short time after it came 

 again, and had then to pay with its life for the foolhardy 

 venture. Usually, however, they are very shy and difficult 

 of approach. I secured two clutches of two eggs each ; and 

 on the 20th of July some natives took from a nest an almost 

 full-fledged eaglet, which was fed on fish for some time. 



WHITE GYBFALCON. 



FALCO ISLANDVS. 



GRAY GYRFALOON. 

 FAICO EUSTICOms. 



I have examined about thirty skins of the Greenland Gyr- 

 falcon, — some of them in the meat, — all shot in South 



