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King Eider; Brent Goose; Barnacle Goose; Pink-footed Goose; 
Turnstone; Dunlin; Sanderling; Grey Phalarope; Knot; Long-tailed 
Skua; Ivory Gull; Fulmar Petrel; Little Auk; Brünnich’s Guillemot; 
Snowy Owl; Hornemann’s Redpoll. | 
C. Casual Guests. 
To the groups already dealt with belonged birds which breed in 
East Greenland. But apart from these there is a third, very large, and 
interesting group of birds, those which do not breed at Angmagsalik 
and do not arrive regularly on migration, are not found at all in East 
Greenland, but only quite casually come roving along the coast, some- 
times from West Greenland, more often from Europe. These are birds 
which during their flight are driven out of their course and in to. the 
coast at the Angmagsalik district, usually to perish very quickly. That 
during migration time there are large numbers of birds in the North 
Atlantic is well known; some of them are on their way up along the 
west coast of Norway to its most northerly part; others are going to 
the Faroe Islands, and many to Iceland. Storm, gales, fog, drive them 
out of their course; many of them no doubt perish in the sea, others 
succeed in getting to land where they can. À number land on the Faroes, 
many on Jan Mayen, as we know from the Austrian Expedition there 
in 1882—83. Some arrive in Iceland, where however — strangely enough, 
by the way — not so many are met, especially when one compares them 
with those seen in the course of a short time in the little area round 
Angmagsalik. 
It is doubtless difficult to believe that particularly many migratory 
birds, driven off their course, should come just to the Angmagsalik 
district. To judge from the geographical situation one might expect 
at least just as many further north, for instance at Scoresby Sound. 
The various expeditions farther north have only met few such species, 
and the reason is no doubt this, that in the course of a short time only 
few such birds are met at all, and, in the period the expeditions usually 
last, not many can be expected. In the Angmagsalik district a number 
‘of these species fall by the Colony itself, but most are brought in by 
the Greenlanders who live scattered about the district; in this respect 
it is naturally of the greatest importance that а Greenland population, 
knowing the interest of the trading superintendant in birds, is spread 
over such a large stretch of country. The list of the species which have 
been met with as casual guests is as follows :— 
Teal; Wigeon; Pintail; Whooper Swan; Common Pochard; Barrow’s 
Golden Eye; White-fronted Goose; Slavonian Grebe; Holböll’s Grebe; 
Land-Rail; Water-Rail; Coot; Lapwing; Golden Plover; Whimbrel; 
