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LONG-TAILED DUCK (Clangula hyemalis L.). 
Havlit. Е. Gr.: Agdlek (from the voice). 
The Long-Tailed Duck breeds here and there on the small lakes 
at Angmagsalik, but not in large numbers. In the winter and spring 
months it is frequently seen in flocks on the fjord, although the flocks 
never seem to be particularly large. In north-east Greenland it is a 
common breeding bird, leaving there as early as the month of September; 
some of the flocks seen at Angmagsalik in winter are presumably mi- 
gratory birds from the north. On the west coast of Greenland the species 
breeds in large numbers; it is on the whole a common circumpolar 
bird. 
The skin of a young male, shot in October, 1900, was sent home. 
HARLEQUIN DUCK (Histrionicus histrionicus histrionicus L.). 
Strømand. E. Gr.: Tornaviarsuk = The little helper-ghost. 
It is only very rarely that the Harlequin Duck is met with at Ang- 
magsalik, but it breeds there now and then. On September 12th, 1904, 
Petersen received from the Greenlanders 4 young birds, taken with 
the bird-dart; they had been found at a stream in Tasiusak; August 
14th, 1905, he recéived from a native an old female which had been 
found together with its very small young, and September 6th the same 
year a young bird, which a native had taken with dart in Tasiusak. 
It would thus seem that several pairs had bred that year, but this is 
quite an exception. Until 1904 Petersen had never, with certainty, 
seen it in the district, and does not mention it at all after 1905. On 
the east coast the species is otherwise only reported from the south 
part; but Bay reports that one of the members of Ryder’s Expedition 
saw male and female with young in Scoresby Sound (1891). 
The Harlequin Duck is common everywhere in North America, 
which seems to be its principal breeding place; it is common in a part 
of West Greenland and on Iceland, so that its occasional appearance 
at Angmagsalik is not strange. The skin of one of the birds taken on 
September 12th, 1904, was sent home and it proved to be that of a 
quite young bird, with beam feathers as yet ungrown; furthermore, 
the skin of the female caught on August 14th, 1905. 
COMMON EIDER (Somateria mollissima islandica Brehm)?. 
Ederfugl. Е. Gr.: Malersertok = He who is persecuted. 
This must be regarded as a fairly common breeding bird at Ang- 
magsalik, but its numbers are only small compared with the crowds 
