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hand it is well known as a breeding bird on Iceland, and presumably 
those shot at Angmagsalik came from there and were of the typical form 
F. a. arctica. 
CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax carbo carbo L.). 
Skarv. Е. Gr.: Aluglulekangitikajik = He without tongue. 
It is said to have bred at Sermilik Fjord, where natives have shown 
Petersen its former breeding place. It is seen occasionally in winter. 
The Cormorant has not been met with elsewhere on the east coast 
beyond that Graah mentions it in the southern part. On the west coast 
it is a common breeding bird, and it also breeds in all parts of Northern 
Europe and Asia, and in Labrador. 
MERLIN (Falco columbarius æsalon Tunst.). 
Dvarsfalk. 
On July 8th, 1914, Petersen received from the Angmagsaet place 
a Merlin which had been shot a few days before, presumably July 2nd 
or 3rd. The bird was a year old, in the grey-brown dress of the young 
bird, but among the very worn feathers there were here and there a 
few new, grey-blue feathers, showing that the bird was a young male 
about to assume the plumage of the old bird. 
A bird which the natives had seen on June 13th, 1908, chasing small 
birds and catching a Ringed Plover in flight has presumably been a 
Merlin rather than a Sparrow-hawk, as Petersen thought from the 
description. 
This is the only time that the Merlin has with certainty been met 
with in Greenland, except on an occasion when it is stated that a young 
male of the European race was shot on May 3rd, 1875, at Cape Farewell 
and sent by Wiepken to Kumlien; it is reasonable to suppose that it 
was shot at sea, on board the ship. It breeds in all parts of Northern 
Europe and a part of Asia, and has its nearest breeding place on Iceland, 
where it is fairly numerous. 
PEREGRINE FALCON (Falco peregrinus anatum Bp., F. p. peregrinus 
Tunst.). 
Vandrefalk. E. Gr.: Napalikitek = He of the short neck. 
There is nothing surprising in the fact that the nomadic Peregrine 
Falcon has reached Angmagsalik too. It breeds there, although sparsely, 
and is only met with at intervals of years. Petersen saw one on October 
(th, 1901, and after that it is not named until May 26th, 1909, when 
he received one from a Greenlander who had shot it on the nest with 
