THE IBIS 
No. IX. JANUARY 1861. 
I .—List of the Birds hitherto observed in Greenland. By- 
Dr. J. Reinhardt, Professor at the Royal Museum of Copen¬ 
hagen, Foreign Member Z. S. L., &c. &c. 
The following list proves of itself how much our knowledge of 
the Avifauna of Greenland has advanced during the last thirty- 
years ; but I may he permitted to prefix a few remarks on the 
subject. In his celebrated f Fauna Groenlandica/ Fabricius enu¬ 
merates fifty-four birds; two of them, however, are only the 
young ones of other species*; and four (which he inserted with¬ 
out having seen them, imagining that he recognized them in the 
narratives of the Eskimaux) are never met with in that country f. 
They had better, therefore, be erased from the list. Thus the 
actual number of Greenland birds with which ornithologists 
are acquainted through the labours of Fabricius amounts only 
to forty-eight. After the publication of the work of this most 
excellent observer, the Avifauna of Greenland received no ma¬ 
terial increase until 1818, when Captain (now General) Edward 
Sabine added three species to it, in his well-known “ Memoir 
on the Birds of Greenland” J. About the same time my late 
* Falco fuscus and Anas glaucion. 
t Parus bicolor , Mergus merganser , Larus cinerarius (ridibundus ), and 
Pelecanus cristatus. 
X In the ‘ Transactions of the Linnean Society,’ vol. xii. p. 527. The 
species added by him are, Tringa canutus, Larus leucopterus (enumerated 
as L. argentatus, var.), and Xema sabini. XJria bruennichii , described by 
him as a new species, was already, as shown by Faber (Prodr. der Island. 
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