CAPT. ROBERT A. BARTLETT 
GREENLAND EXPEDITION of 1938 
Under the Auspices of 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
AND CLEVELAND MUSEUM 
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Field Notes for N.iacuynarstak, just north of Cape York (75 59’ N. Lat«, 
66 12 » W. Long): 
The vessel was at anchor at Cape York glacier, and on the afternoon 
of July 28, 1938, we went ashore several miles north in the whaleboat. 
The place where we landed was a low flat piece of land at the foot of a 
glacier, surrounded on all sides by tall steep cliffs. Glacial streams 
and ponds wound over the marshy tundra, making it look like a good place 
for shore birds, but we saw neither one. Captain Bartlett suggests that 
the natives might have scared them away because the Sanderlings used to 
be very common here. The weather was cloudy with an occasional drizzle. 
Ray Hellmann accompanied me as usual. 
(1) Eider, Northern: 
Fairly common. Again I noticed the presence of a 
large number of drakes. 
(2) Gull, Glaucous: 
Common. 
(3) Guillemot, Mandt’s; 
Common at sea along the shore. 
(4) Murre, Brunnich’s: 
Not common in the valley but quite a few were seen 
flying high out at sea. 
(5) Dovekie : 
Very common breeder in the cliffs; 
(6) Raven, Northerns 
Saw two high about the cliffs. 
(?) Snow Bunjiting: 
Common as everywhere. 
List of Specimens taken; 
1 G18.UCOUS Gull 
14 Dovekie s 
4 Mandt’s (Buillemots 
2 Snov/ buntings 
(ad.?) ^ 
(10 ad.«#y, 4 ad.?) 
(4 ad.<^) 
(1 ad.?, 1 jUTT.?) 
21 Specimens 
