248 О. HELMS. 
In most parts of West Greenland it is a common breeding bird. 
In East Greenland it was met with by Bay at Scoresby Sound, but has 
not otherwise been seen on the east coast. On Iceland it breeds in numbers, 
and otherwise in North Europe and Siberia. 
Seven skins have been sent home. | | 
1) Sermilik. June 8th, 1902. Old bird in summer plumage; judging by the 
dress a female. Wing 115 mm., Tail 60 mm., Tarsus 21 mm. 
2) Same place. June 8th, 1902. Old bird in very impure summer plumage. 
Feathers on breast with broad white edges. Wing 116 mm., Tail 
50 mm., Tarsus 22 mm. 
3) Sermilik. August 1902. Young bird. 
4) Angmagsalik Fjord. Sept. 20th, 1901. 
5) and 6) Angmagsalik Fjord. Aug. 10th, 1901. Quite young birds with 
down round nostrils, taken with bird-dart. 
7) Sermilik Fjord. Aug. 1902. А half-grown bird with much down on 
the head. Wing 84 mm., Tail 17 mm., Tarsus 17 mm. 
COMMON SNIPE (Capella gallinago gallinago L., C. g. faergensis 
Brehm, C. g. delicata Ord.). 
Dobbeltbekkasin, Horsegøg. 
The species is one of the purely occasional visitors to Angmagsalik, 
but is by no means rare, Petersen having received it eight times. They 
were all taken late in April or May except one, which was shot in October. 
Of those acquired last Petersen writes: “April 30th, 1913, today a Green- 
lander shot a Snipe among the houses here. It was only slightly shy 
and comparatively well-nourished”. And on May 15th the same year: 
“From Norajik on the Angmagsalik Fjord I received today a Snipe 
which had been found dead about there and had apparently starved 
or been frozen to death”. October 136, 1923 he writes: “The natives 
have today seen a bird by the stream here which, from their description, 
seems to have ‘been of the Snipe family”. And on October 5th the same 
year: “Today my assistant shot a Common Snipe on the shore of a 
small lake close by; this is probably the same one that was seen a few 
days ago”. | 
The Common Snipe being met with at Angmagsalik (the only place 
on the east coast of Greenland that it is known, by the way), there 
may be three different species involved: the typical form, Capella gal- 
linago gallinago L., the rather larger race met with on Iceland and the 
Faroe Islands, С. 2. faergensis Brehm, which differs in respect of the 
lighter colour on its back and by having reddish cross-stripes on the 
feathers at the side of the body instead of black; and finally, there is 
a possibility that it might be the North American species which is now 
