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any distance into the pack-ice fields as it always disappears on their 
borders. 
12. Mormou arcticus. — This bird I saw only once in Davis 
Strait and Baffin Bay ; it was on our northward trip off Upernavik. 
13. Mergulus alle. — The little auk is very abundant among the 
ice-floes of Melville Bay and Baffin Bay. Never before have I seen 
this little bird in such countless numbers as here or in Inglefield Gulf. 
It would be difficult to estimate the number of thousands seen in one 
day only. The natives are very skillful in catching them. The flesh 
is a delicacy and the skins, with the feathers turned inwards, forms 
the winter undergarment of the Eskimos. 
14. Uria grylle. — The black guillemot or “sea-pigeon,” as 
our sailors called this bird, was found nearly everywhere in the pack- 
ice of Baffin Bay and Smith Sound, although, of course, it did not 
equal in number the little auk or the following species. 
15. Alga Bruenichii is very common on both sides of Baffin 
Bay. In the pack-ice of Melville Bay and Inglefield Gulf we had 
many chances to shoot the loons which frequented these waters in con- 
siderable quantities. 
16. SoMATERiA MOLLissiMA. — The eider-duck may be regarded 
as one of the most common birds along the whole coast from Disco 
Island to Inglefield Gulf. We shot it several times during the jour- 
ney ; most successful were our hunters on our northward trip at Dal- 
rymple Island, at the entrance to Wolstenholme Sound, where they 
killed eighty-seven, all females, in an hour and a half I found a great 
many nests of this bird on Cary Islands and at many places in Inglefield 
Gulf On the coast of Ellesmere Land the eider-duck was also to be 
found. 
In regard to invertebrate animals I may remark, at the outset, that 
I had no opportunity to collect insects or spiders. Our botanist. Dr. 
Wetherill, surgeon of the expedition, had opportunities on his excur- 
sions to secure a few insects. These have been roughly classified by 
an American entomologist as follows — One Bombus hyperboreus^ 
three Tipula arctica, four Pediculi, four spiders, one species of 
Diptera^ two cocoons and three larvae of Bombycid^s. 
The entire collection of marine fauna was brought by me to Swe- 
den, and, having just finished a rough classification of the collection, 
it may be well to say a little by way of preliminary concerning it. 
Most of the marine animals were obtained by the dredge or the sur- 
face-net in Inglefield Gulf I much regretted that I had no oppor- 
