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LAND RAIL (Crex crex L.). 
Vastelkonge, Engsnarre. 
The Land Rail is one of the purely casual visitors to Angmagsalik, 
having been met with twice in all. On September 19th, 1901, Petersen 
received one which had been found dead close to the station in a starved 
condition, and October 25th, 1912, one was shot near the buildings 
in the colony. The bird was, as might be expected, unknown to the 
natives. 
In West Greenland it has been met with a few times, but is other- 
wise a European-Asiatic form, with its nearest breeding place on the 
Faroe Islands and in Norway; it is not known on Iceland. 
The skins of both the birds secured were sent home: Young bird, 
September, 1901, Wing 130 mm., Tail 49 mm., Tarsus 37 mm. Young 
bird, October 25th, 1912. 
WATER RAIL (Rallus aquaticus aquaticus L.). 
Vandrikse. 
Only once has the species been met with, Petersen in 1903 having 
received a young bird, probably a female, which had been found dead 
at Cape Dan in the autumn. The Water Rail is common in large parts 
of Europe, Asia and North Africa; its nearest breeding place is on Ice- 
land, where it is rather frequent and where some remain the winter 
over. 
The species had not been met with previously in Greenland, but 
since then it has appeared on the West coast. 
The skin of the bird was sent home. 
СООТ (Fulica ата ата L.). 
Blishgne. 
This species of the Rail family, too, has only once been met with 
at Angmagsalik, Petersen having received one on Мау 5th, 1914, from 
a Greenlander who had caught it on the ice a few days previously. 
It was very emaciated and had only a few pebbles in the stomach. 
À raven was hunting it when the native secured it. 
On the east coast the species has been met with this once, on the 
west coast a few times. In small numbers it breeds on Iceland, where 
it is perhaps a stationary bird; presumably the East Greenland Coot 
came from there. Otherwise its nearest breeding place is South Norway 
and the British Isles, whence it would have been a very long way for 
this bad flyer to get to Angmagsalik. Its breeding places elsewhere 
are in Central and South Europe and a large part of Central Asia. 
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