The Birds of Angmagsalik. 203 
BRÜNNICHS GUILLEMOT (Uria lomvia lomvia L.). 
Brünnichs Tejste, Kortnæbbet Lomvie. Е. Gr.: Sarigsek 
— He of the beautiful front. 
This bird does not breed in the Angmagsalik district, is mostly met 
with in the autumn and winter, sometimes in very small, at other times 
in large numbers. On November 5th, 1900, Petersen writes that he saw 
many in Tasiusak, flocks of up to twenty. March, 1906 a number of 
openings suddenly appeared in the field-ice on the coast, and big crowds 
of Guillemots unexpectedly appeared wherever these openings were to 
be found, both in Angmagsalik Fjord and in Sermilik Fjord. That day 
Petersen received about ten birds from the neighbours. On March 16th 
he received more than 30 from Cape Dan and the adjacent settlements. 
The natives had been hunting them and are said to have taken up to 
40 birds per man with the bird-dart. In 1909 Petersen writes on January 
ist that there have been large numbers during the past weeks, and that 
scores have been shot in Tasiusak. During the whole of January and 
February of 1914 they were numerous everywhere, on the fjords at Ang- 
magsalik and also at Sermilik — at the end of February they were so 
numerous that the natives could get as many as 40 to 50 a day. On March 
5th they had disappeared. In December, 1914, and the beginning of 
January, 1915, there were again large numbers, the Greenlanders at the 
farthermost settlements at the Sermilik Fjord obtaining up to 60 a day 
with the bird-dart. There was such an abundance that the birds were 
even used to feed the dogs. 
On the west and north coasts of Greenland the species breeds very 
commonly, has been found breeding on the east coast at Scoresby Sound, 
whereas on the northern part of the east coast it was only seen once 
by the Denmark Expedition. In reality the race is one of those breeding 
farthest north, breeds at Spitzbergen, Novaja Semlia, Franz Josephs 
Land, Iceland and on the coast of Labrador. 
LITTLE AUK (Alle alle L.). 
Sokonge. Е. Gr.: Kutulak, Kutsularajik = The little one. 
This bird hardly breeds in the Angmagsalik district, comes there 
only as a winter visitor, sometimes in large numbers, at other times 
only a few. It appears in October and is frequently seen in November- 
December, sometimes holding out till into January. Petersen writes on 
January Ist, 1909: “During the past two or three weeks there have been 
a lot of sea-birds, particularly Little Auks and Brünnich’s Guillemots, 
in all parts of the fjords; even in Tasiusak scores of them have been 
caught or shot every day.” And on January 8th, 1915: “A number of 
