224 О. HeELms. 
Common Curlew; Redshank; Common Snipe; Woodcock; Puffin; 
Cormorant; Merlin; White-tailed Eagle; Long-eared Owl; Rook; 
Hooded Crow; Martin; Swallow; Starling; Redwing. 
À glance at this list will soon show that, with one or two excep- 
tions, all these birds are European-Asiatic species, and that the con- 
nection with the North-European fauna is very close through these 
species. Among them all there is only one exclusively American species, 
Holboll’s Grebe, the great North American race of the common 
European Red-necked Grebe. All the other species might come from 
Europe, although this does not say that some of them are not to be 
found in North America too. On Iceland all the species have been met, 
with exception of the Land-Rail and the Woodcock, and of the 
others there are only the Lapwing, Common Curlew, Long-eared Owl, 
Rook, Crow and Starling that are not definitely known as breeding 
on Iceland; most of them visit that island often enough during mi- 
eration. 
A number of the species which come to Angmagsalik may doubt- 
less be regarded as certain to perish in that bleak climate, which is so 
little like what they usually require. The Redwing, the Swallow, the 
Rook, the Woodcock and the Land-Rail will hardly be able to feed 
themselves for long, and as matter of fact the reports as to many of 
them show that they were found dead or dying. Many other species, 
however, would certainly be able to settle down comfortably, the 
various ducks and the powerful wading birds, for instance such as the 
Golden Plover and the Whimbrel. It is hardly impossible that the Har- 
lequin Ducks which once or twice have been found breeding have 
casually come over from Iceland, nor that the Golden Plover and 
the Whimbrel do breed occasionally; that even smaller and less power- 
ful birds can settle down and breed is seen from the fact that the White 
Wagtail and the Meadow Pipit — both so common on Iceland — are 
now and then found breeding at Angmagsalik. 
TEAL (Anas crecca crecca L.). 
Krikand. 
The Teal is one of the casual guests at Angmagsalik, where it 
appears in spring or autumn, apparently on migration to or from Ice- 
land, where for the most part it is a migratory bird; sometimes it appears 
in small flocks. Petersen gives the following details of its appearance: 
At the end of September, 1897, he shot two of a flock of six; they were 
on a small lake close to the houses of the colony. On September 25th, 
