234 О. Heıms. 
1907, Sept. 13th. Today large flocks seen flying past in an easterly 
direction. = 
1908, Sept. 24th. During the last ten days I have received 15, some 
from the Cape Dan district and others from the station itself. 
Many are to be seen round here just now, even by the houses, 
and some are shot almost every day, mostly old birds. 
1911, Sept. 24th. During September I received about a score from the 
district round Cape Dan, all young birds. | 
1912, Sept. 24th. Large flocks of geese seen during the past few days 
— both Brent geese and others — flying past, mostly from west 
to east. 
1914, Oct. 15th. Hardly any geese shot this autumn. 
1923, Oct. Ist. Today received nine from Саре Dan, mostly old birds. 
There is something extraordinary in the large numbers in which 
they pass Angmagsalık and also in the direction of the flight. In the 
spring, when it is to the north-west or west, the road leads over the 
nland ice, and it seems to come from the same place in the autumn. 
One might imagine the possibility that the Brent geese breeding on the 
north-west coast of Greenland or in Arctie North-America made their 
way across the inland ice, which would certainly only be a short stretch 
compared with the distance of more than 400 miles many of them 
have to travel from their winter quarters in the European waters to 
the breeding places away up in the north. 
The Brent goose does not breed at Angmagsalik, and has only 
very rarely been met with as a breeding bird farther north in East 
Greenland, although a number were shot on the Denmark Expedition 
and flocks were seen; nothing more about the breeding places was, 
however, elucidated. In West Greenland it breeds in numbers in the 
most northerly districts from Upernivik and to the north, as also in 
Arctic North America, and on Frantz Joseph’s Land and Spitsbergen; 
on the whole it is one of the species which have their breeding places 
farthest north, and is perhaps the most northerly breeding bird. 
In "Danmarks Fugle” Schiöler states that the Brent Geese 
appearing in Greenland, including those sent home from Angmagsalik, 
are of the North American, light-bellied race, which principally 
differ from the typical form by the rather lighter colour on the under- 
side, whereas they seem to be about equal in size. The race, which 
was previously called B. b. glaucogaster Brehm, is now called B. 6. Hrota 
О. Е. Müller. 
Two skins have been sent home, one of an old bird shot at the 
Station in 1900, the other of a young bird shot at the same place on 
October 15th, 1901. | 
