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Little Auks are to be seen.” Petersen has been informed by the Green- 
landers that the Little Auk breeds at the Sermilik Fjord, but this is 
uncertain. 
The Little Auk breeds in large numbers in the most northerly parts 
of the west coast of Greenland and also on the north coast — without 
doubt on the northern parts of the east coast too, even if the breeding 
places there have not been found. Bay saw it in large numbers in Scoresby 
Sound, and those birds which come to Angmagsalik in the winter are 
undoubtedly hatched further to the north in East Greenland. 
It is one of the most northerly breeding birds, has its breeding 
places in the most northerly parts of North America, at Spitzbergen, 
Novaja Zemlia and Franz Josephs Land; its most southerly breeding 
place known is on Grimsey, north of Iceland. 
GREAT AUK (Alca impennis L.). 
Gejrfugl. E. Gr.: Isarukitek. 
That the Great Auk has lived at Angmagsalik is shown by what 
G. Holm reports. During his sojourn at Angmagsalik in 1884—85 it was 
said that “the grandfather of a man then living had caught an Isarukitek 
(Great Auk), of which it was related that it was a very large bird which 
had quite small wings with short feathers, and that it could remain just 
as long under water as a big seal”. 
That the memory of the bird is still alive among the Greenlanders 
is evident from the fact that Petersen writes in 1896: “According to 
the Greenlanders a Great Auk was seen near the island of Ingmikertok 
in the Angmagsalik Fjord about six years ago. The man who had seen 
the bird said that it was as large as a Great Northern Diver, but could 
not fly. He had hunted it together with another Greenlander, but as it 
was in the autumn and the sea rather rough, it got away.” 
PUFFIN (Fratercula arctica L.). 
Lunde, Søpapegøje. 
The appearance of this bird at Angmagsalik is quite accidental. 
Petersen has received it twice, the first time in 1907 and the second 
time in January, 1909, when from Sermilik he received a young bird 
which had been taken with the bird-dart a day or two before. The natives 
did not know the bird, nor had they even a name for it, so that it must 
be very rare. 
On the West Coast the Puffin breeds commonly apart from the 
southern parts. On the whole of the east coast there is no record of its 
having been met with elsewhere than at Angmagsalik. On the other 
