The Birds of Angmagsalik. 229 
which formerly bred on the west coast of Greenland. The largest colonies 
only consist of about 10 pairs, and flocks of 50 are looked upon as large. 
In the autumn it frequents the district as long as there is open water, 
but it has not been met with in the period from December to March. 
Its appearance is otherwise irregular; in 1905 and 1906 it seems to have 
kept away entirely, but appeared again fairly numerously in the spring 
of 1907. In 1928 Petersen writes that there are now many more than 
previously. October 6th he obtained 2, which had been taken with 
bird-dart at the mouth of the ТазтазаК out of a fair-sized flock; November 
19th he writes that he receives some almost daily. 
Petersen has not sent any skins of the Common Eider home, so 
that ıt cannot be said with certainty to which race the East Green- 
land Common Eider belongs; but in all probability it is the same race 
that breeds in the south part of the west coast, 5. mollissima islandica 
Brehm, and it has also been met with at other places on the east 
coast. The Common Eider, in several races, breeds in all parts of the 
arctic and subarctic areas, but it is not one of the birds which are found 
farthest north. 
KING EIDER (Somateria spectabilis L.). 
Pragtederfugl. Е. Gr.: Kingalik = He of the nose. 
It has only appeared twice in all, Petersen having received an 
old male on May 25th, 1902, from Amitsuarsik and March 14th, 1903, 
again an old male, shot at Ikerasak on the Angmagsalik Fjord out of 
a large flock. | 
On the west coast of Greenland the species frequently breeds in 
the northerly districts, migrates to the south in winter. In the northerly 
parts of the east coast, too, it is a fairly common breeding bird, which 
migrates in September. On the Denmark Expedition it was found 
breeding in numbers at Danmarks Havn and seen frequently in lat. 
80° N. The species is circumpolar and breeds in all the arctic areas. 
ICELAND GOLDEN EYE (Bucephala islandica Gm.). 
Islandsk Hvinand. 
Only once has Petersen met with the species at Angmagsalik, 
having received the head and neck of an old male on September 23rd, 
1913, which had been shot during the summer in the vicinity of the 
Angmagsætplace (Kingak). 
On the east coast the species has not been met with at all before 
this. In North America it is a common breeding bird and also at one 
