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numbers of the bird along Koukjuak river and found them along Foxe 
basin until October 6. Eggs and one specimen of the pipit were collected 
by the MacMillan expedition to southwest Baffin island, 1921-22. 
85. Saxicola oenanthe leucorhoa (Gmelin). Greenland wheats ar. 
Eskimo: Ekvligak; Erkogolek, -lik, -lit; Erkoligatt, -gak, -gat, according to Hantzsch. 
The Greenland wheatear, according to the experience of the writer, 
is one of the rarest birds of Baffin island. It was met with only at Pang- 
nirtung fiord where it was first noted on August 10, 1924. Three were 
observed frequenting the rocky coast near the post on August 16; one of 
them was collected. They were extremely wild and retiring. A solitary 
bird was noted on September 26, 1924, in a snowstorm. These constitute 
the only records made by the present writer. 
Kumlien (1879, p. 73) states that it breeds on both shores of Cum- 
berland sound. This species was not collected by Hantzsch (1914, pp. 
130-131), but he saw at the extremity of Nettilling fiord single birds on 
June 6 and 7 and a pair on June 8, 1910. He again noted the species on 
June 13 at Amittok lake. 
Fishes 
Collections of fish were made at several localities. The following 
notes are by the writer and to them are appended notes by A. Halkett, to 
whom the specimens were submitted for identification. 
The northern pollack ( Boreogadus saida) was obtained only at cape 
Dorset, where it was found in the sea in shallow water near the coast. 
It is not certain whether the habitats of the two species of stickleback 
collected, are identical or not. Some of the Arctic sticklebacks ( Pygosteus 
pungiiius brachypoda) were obtained August, 1924, in a small mountain 
tarn at Sirmilling bay, Issortukdjuak fiord, at an altitude of fully 800 feet 
above sea-level. The stream fell this entire height in the course of a few 
hundred yards. The common stickleback ( Gastrosteus aculeatus ) was col- 
lected in shallow, freshwater pools on the border of Nettilling lake in late 
June, 1925, and in small ponds a few feet above sea-level at Amadjuak 
bay in August, 1926. 
The Greenland sculpin (Myoxocephalus groenlandicus) and the Long- 
horned sculpin (Oncocottus hexacornis) were taken in the sea at Amadjuak 
bay in early August, 1926. 
In the case of the Arctic char ( Salvelinus alpinus ) the first specimens 
were collected between May 10 and June 1, 1925, in Takuirbing river at 
its discharge into Nettilling lake. These specimens were speared through 
holes in the ice, by Eskimo. Later in the season when the lakes were free 
of ice every strategy was used to induce the species to rise to a troll with 
bait, spinners, artificial minnows, etc., but without success. During 
July and August, 1925, a number of small char were captured among the 
rocks along the shores of Nettilling lake. The largest specimen secured 
at Nettilling lake was 22 inches long and weighed 3 pounds. In late July, 
1926, large numbers of char were resorting to the mouth of Elik river 
near cape Dorset, several were caught, weighing between 3 and 4 pounds. 
At Amadjuak bay, the trout or char, were running in considerable numbers 
along the coast in early August, 1926, and were netted in quantity by the 
Hudson’s Bay Company. The average weight of a large number examined 
was about 3^ pounds, and the average length, 19 inches. The largest 
