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Prof. J. Reinhardt on the Birds 
father began to have birds collected in Greenland on a larger 
scale for the Royal Museum of Copenhagen, which was then 
under his care, and from this moment dates the great increase 
in our knowledge of the Avifauna of that country. In 1824 
he published a short paper —“ Gronlands Fugle efter de nyeste 
Erfaringer”*—in which four species were added; and fourteen 
years later, in the Introduction to his f Ichthyologiske Bidrag 
til den Gronlandske Fauna’be added not less than twenty- 
one, discovered in the meantime by the various collectors em¬ 
ployed by the Royal Museum, and chiefly by Captain Holboll and 
Dr. Vahl. In the following two or three years some more were 
received, and thus, in 1842, Holboll was enabled to enumerate, 
in his ‘ Ornithologiske Bidrag’{, eighty-eight species then ob¬ 
served in Greenland,—or rather eighty-six, as two of the birds 
included by him, Aquila ossifraga and Uria ringvia , have scarcely 
any claim to be accounted distinct species. Since Holboll’s 
memoir was written, even this considerable number has increased 
very much, about thirty species more having been added. For 
these additions science is indebted to various ornithologists, all 
duly mentioned in my list; but by far the greater number is 
owing to the exertions of the late Carl Holboll and others of the 
indefatigable collectors of the Royal Museum §. 
In Dr. Walker’s paper on the “ Ornithology of the Voyage 
of the f Fox/ ” which lately appeared in this Magazine ( f Ibis/ 
Ornith. p. 42) and my father, mentioned in the e Fauna Groenlandica ’ 
under the name of Alca pica , and accordingly cannot be considered a 
real addition to the list; and in the same way, Falco peregrinus , also added 
by Sabine, seems to have been enumerated by Fabricius as F. rusticolus. 
* In the ‘Tidskrift for Naturvidenskaberne,’ Kiobenhavn, 1824, vol. iii. 
pp. 52-80. 
t In the * Yid. Sel. naturvid. og mathem. Afh.’ vii. pp. 85-228. 
X In Kroyer’s c Naturhistoriske Tidskrift,’ 1843, vol. iv. pp. 361-457. 
A German translation of this paper has been published : “ Ornithologischer 
Beitrag zur Fauna Gronlands von Carl Holboll. Uebersetzt und mit einem 
Anhange versehen von J. H. Paulsen.” Leipzig, 1846. 
§ Many of these additions were recorded in the author’s “ Notitser til 
Gronlands Ornithologie,” published in the 4 Yidenskabelige Meddelelser fra 
den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn f. A. 1853,’ p. 69, of w'hich 
paper, a translation, by Dr. Gloger, appeared in Cabanis’ 4 Journal fur Or¬ 
nithologie,’ 1854, p. 423.— Ed. 
