The Birds of Angmagsalik. 247 
That this species has only been met with once proves better than 
anything else that the migration path of those species which breed far 
up towards the north in Greenland does not touch Angmagsalik at all, 
and that it is quite an accident when some of these species come to 
this district. The Sanderling breeds in large numbers in the northern 
parts of the east coast. Bay saw some at Scoresby Sound, where Nathorst, 
too, met with it; he and Kolthoff also found it breeding in large numbers 
at Franz Josephs Fjord. On the Denmark Expedition Manniche came 
across it as a very common breeding bird around Danmarks Havn in 
lat. 76° N. It also breeds in West Greenland, in Arctic North America, 
North Siberia and at Spitzbergen. 
The skin of the bird shot — in winter plumage — was sent home. 
Wing 117 mm., Tail 50 mm., Tarsus 25 mm. 
GREY PHALAROPE (Phalaropus fulicarius jourdaini Iredale). 
Thorshane. 
The same thing applies to the Grey Phalarope as to the Sanderling, 
that it is only very rarely met with at Angmagsalik, whereas it breeds 
in no small numbers further to the north on the east coast. Petersen 
mentions that in all he has had the species five times, once in June, 
once in July, twice in August and once in September. There is nothing 
to show that it has bred at Angmagsalik. 
On the whole it is a circumpolar species. It breeds in the northern 
part of West Greenland, has been met with on the east coast by Kolthoff 
at the Mackenzie Gulf, by Manniche at Danmarks Havn, where it was 
commonly breeding; it not uncommonly breeds on Iceland. 
Two skins were sent home. 
1) June 24th, 1902. Wing 124 mm., Tail 63 mm., Tarsus 22 mm. 
2) July 3rd, 1905. Very variegated and impure plumage, on the under- 
side the red feathers here and there commencing to break out 
among the white and among the grey on the breast and neck. 
The skins are of the slightly different race jourdaini first described 
from Spitzbergen. 
RED-NECKED PHALAROPE (Phalaropus lobatus L.). 
Odinshane. E. Gr.: Nalumisiortok = One who swims. 
It breeds rather commonly round the gulf where the colony is 
situated (Tasiusak). Eggs have been found in June and July, and 
killed birds — both old and young — were often brought to Petersen. 
In August-September small flocks of 4—6 are often met with, some- 
_ times swimming, sometimes walking on the edge of the beach. 
