The Birds of Angmagsalik. all 
fjords on which the winter ice still lay, unbroken in places, only here 
and there a spot bare of snow on land where there was sparse vegetation, 
which, however, was mostly scattered and stunted. Little is said of 
bird-life, too; a few Common Eiders, sometimes in small flocks, some 
Black Guillemots and some Gulls. A few bird-cliffs were found, where 
at the most fifty to a hundred pairs of Gulls and some Black Guillemots 
were breeding. This is all that the report contained about birds. Neither 
was the climate mild; the temperature was taken early in the morning 
and in the afternoon, the average being 1.7°. 
A perusal of Kruuse’s descriptions in Meddelelser om Grønland, 
Volume 49, gives the impression that vegetation is rather more luxuriant 
along this coast than would appear from Amdrup’s report; this is owing 
to the fact that Kruuse includes all the plants he found, and of course 
a certain number are to be found even in the most desolate areas. As 
to vegetation, says Kruuse, from Angmagsalik to Scoresby Sound there 
are two flora areas: one south, with inland flora, and one to the north, 
with an equally marked coast flora. The boundary between these two 
areas lies naturally at Cape Wandel in lat. 66° 18° N. Otherwise the 
difference in the vegetation may be seen from the fact that in the Ang- 
magsalik district in every place examined (the outer islands excluded) 
there were found on the average 72 species, in the northern, coast district 
only 24 species. The most luxuriant locality in Angmagsalik bore 142 
species, the poorest 21, whilst the best coast locality in the north only 
had 48 species, and the poorest 4. 
The Angmagsalik District. 
On the east coast, which as a whole is desolate and bleak, lies, 
rather more favoured by natural conditions, the district of Angmag- 
salik, roughly stretching from lat. 65!/;° N. to 664/,° N., from long. 
35° W. to 38° W. 
The natural conditions must be briefly mentioned in order to show 
what it is that makes this district a favourable place for birds. The 
coast line itself at Angmagsalik runs almost east-west instead of north- 
south as it does just south of the district, and southwest—northeast 
on the north of it. The limit on the west is the fifteen miles deep Sermilik 
Fjord, which runs almost north—south, and at its innermost point is 
adjacent to the inland ice, whereas the boundary on the east is Ser- 
miligak. Between these two fjords several others run far in; one of 
them reaches as far as the Sermilik Fjord and thus cuts Angmagsalik 
Island off from the mainland; the water between this island and the islands 
lying outside is called Angmagsalik Fjord; it stretches 9 miles inland. 
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