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Prof. J. Reinhardt on the Birds 
of passage from Europe*; and should even this number prove 
to be too smalls and some others (for instance, Gallinago media 
and Anser albifrons ) be added, there will still be a great pre¬ 
ponderance of such birds migrating to Greenland from North 
America. But, on the other hand, Greenland is marked as being 
the most westerly, though regular, boundary of some strictly 
European species,—not only the birds of passage already men¬ 
tioned, but also others, such as Aquila albicilla. 
Greenland is divided into two“ Inspektorater”: the southern 
(South Greenland) includes the settlements (“ Kolonier”) of 
Julianehaab, Frederikshaab, Fiskemesset, Godthaab, Sukker- 
toppen, and Holsteenborg; in the northern (North Greenland) 
' are the settlements Godhavn, Egedesminde, Christianshaab, Ja¬ 
cob shavn, Ritenbenk, Omenak, and Upernivik. 
The names of the species which breed in Greenland are printed in small 
capitals; those observed as yet in very few instances only, and the 
accidental stragglers, are marked with an asterisk ; the domestic birds 
are not numbered, but distinguished by a dagger. 
1. Haliaetus albicilla (Linn.). 
Very common : occurs in South Greenland all the year round; 
in North Greenland only in summer. Besides this, the late 
Captain Holboll distinguished another larger Eagle with a longer 
tail, Haliaetus ossifragus. The existence of such a second species 
I cannot decidedly deny; but all the Eagles which I have re¬ 
ceived from Greenland appeared to me to be most certainly of 
one species. 
2. Falco candicans, Gmel. 
I am indeed inclined to believe that this species is a collective 
one, and that there can be distinguished, besides the true F. 
candicans , a F. islandicus ; but having as yet succeeded only in 
distinguishing them when in the plumage of the old bird, I 
prefer not to separate them here. Both forms (be they varieties, 
races, or species) occur in Greenland; but that one of them 
(as it has been suggested) is confined to the northern, the 
* Falco peregrinus , Saxicola csnanthe, Numenius phceopus, and Cygnus 
musicus. 
