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guided to Greenland. The specimen (an adult female) was ob¬ 
tained at Godthaab, and presented to the Royal Museum in 1851. 
Accordingly I have been somewhat surprised to see that Mr. 
Cassin supposes (Reports of Expl. &c. ix. p. 751) the bird to be 
a constant summer visitor to Greenland, while it really does not 
even occur in Iceland as a regular visitor. 
61. *Ortygometra porzana (Linn.). 
Besides one obtained the 28th of September, 1841, at Godt- 
haab, and already mentioned by Holboll, another has been cap¬ 
tured at Nenortalik, aud sent to the Royal Museum in 1856. 
62. * Ortygometra Carolina (Linn.). 
The specimen mentioned by my father (Ichth. Bidr. p. 20) to 
have been obtained at Sukkertoppen, October 3, 1823, is the 
only one ever observed in Greenland. Holboll, by a mistake, 
quotes the bird as obtained in 1822. 
63. Fulica americana , Gm. 
In the year 1854, a Coot was shot by Mr. Olrik, the Governor 
of North Greenland, in the harbour of Christianshaab, one of the 
settlements in Disco Bay, and another was obtained at Godthaab 
by Mr. Holboll in the same year. The first-mentioned example 
was presented to Mr. John Barrow, and is now in that gentle¬ 
man's collection. The other specimen, which I am told was very 
much injured by the shot, does not seem to have been preserved. 
64. Anser albifrons (Gm.). 
f ANSER CINEREUS DOMESTICUS. 
65. Anser hyperboreus , Pall. 
Only a few young birds hitherto observed. Certainly does not 
breed on that tract of the Greenland coast occupied by the Danish 
settlements, and probably not at all in that land. 
66. Bernicla brenta (Pall.). 
On the whole coast occupied by our settlements, this Goose 
appears only on the passage to and from its breeding-places in 
the very high latitudes to the north of the 73rd degree. 
67. Bernicla leucopsis (Bechst.). 
According to Holboll, this species, in autumn, regularly visits 
