230 О. Herws. 
or two places in West Greenland, presumably. On Iceland it is а com- 
mon breeding bird. 
The remaining parts of the killed bird were sent home. 
REDBREASTED MERGANSER (Mergus serrator serrator L.). 
Toppet Skallesluger. Е. Gr.: Nuerniagarnak. 
It breeds at Angmagsalik, although scarcely in large numbers. 
Is not known to have been seen in winter, but arrives in the spring, 
in June, when there is open water. The breeding time varies, as is 
also the case in Denmark, generally late. July 29th, 1899, Petersen 
obtained 3 downy young only a few days old, of which one was sent 
home; September 7th, 1900, a few half-grown young, and September Ist, 
1914, a nest of 9 newly laid eggs. 
The species is widely spread as a breeding bird over the northerly 
parts of both the new and the old world; in West Greenland it breeds 
fairly frequently, and very often on Iceland. On the East Coast it has 
only been seen on very rare occasions outside Angmagsalik; reported 
by Bay as having been seen in Scoresby Sound and was once met with 
by the Denmark Expedition. Е. Lehn Schiöler has indicated the 
West Greenland Merganser as a separate race, М. serrator major, 
but skins from the East Coast are of the typical form. 
PINK-FOOTED GOOSE (Anser brachyrhyncus Baill.). 
Kortnæbbet Gaas. Е. Gr.: Nerdlek. 
Only once has the species been observed here, Petersen having 
received one on June 11th, 1901, which had been shot the day before | 
by a native in the Angmagsalik Fjord. The skin is that of an old bird, 
a typical brachyrhynchus, although rather bigger than skins from Spitz- 
bergen. 
Wings 445 mm., Tarsus 72 mm., Bill (Culmen) 47 mm. 
The skin is exactly the same as one brought home by Bay from 
Scoresby Sound, where he found it breeding. Dr. O. le Roi at the 
A. König Museum in Bonn, who had the skin for examination, declared 
that it agreed on every point with those brought home from König’s 
Spitzbergen Expedition. The species has its main breeding place at 
Spitzbergen, and possibly breeds on Frantz Joseph’s Land too; other- 
wise it has only been met with in North-east Greenland, where Nathorst 
and Kolthoff saw it in numbers at the Mackenzie Bay and Frantz 
Joseph’s Fjord, whilst Bay, as already mentioned, met with it at Scoresby 
Sound. 
Petersen states a few times that he has seen wild geese near the — 
