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two eggs at Ignortalik, on the west side of the Sermilik Fjord. The nest 
was оп a gull-cliff, and the eggs, which the Greenlander had eaten, were 
quite fresh. On June 11th, 1912, he received a male which had been 
shot by the nest in Tasiusak, north of the Angmagsaet place, where it 
is said there had been a breeding place for many years. The female was 
also shot. 
On July Ist, 1924, Petersen received from Kekertulok, south of 
Sermilik, two eggs of the Peregrine Falcon taken some days before 
together with two others (the nest having contained four eggs, two of 
which however had been broken in transit). The eggs were quite fresh. 
Both parents were shot with the gun and were not brought to Petersen. 
The skins of both were sent home, and that shot in 1909 proved 
to be a mature but not very old bird which, with its unspotted breast, 
closely resembled the American form, whereas the one shot in 1911 was 
more like the European form. 
On the east coast the Peregrine Falcon has otherwise only been met 
with in the most southerly parts, where Petersen frequently saw it in 
October-November, 1893. 
In West Greenland the American race breeds commonly; the Euro- 
pean race breeds in many parts of Europe and Asia, and has its nearest 
breeding places in North Norway. There is nothing strange in the fact 
that both the American and the European forms are met with in East 
Greenland. 
GREENLAND FALCON (Falco rusticolus candicans Gm., 
Е. г. islandus Brünn.). 
Jastfalk. Е. Gr.: Napalikitek = He of the short neck. 
The Greenland Falcon as a breeding bird is only rare in the Ang- 
magsalik district. Petersen mentions twice that he has received reports 
of its breeding, in 1908 at Tasiusarsik (Holm’s winterquarters) just to 
the north of Angmagsalık, and in 1917 in Tasiusak in the Angmagsalik 
Fjord from which place he received two fully fledged young. It also 
agrees with the rare occasions on which it breeds that it is only rarely 
seen in the spring or summer months; it is only once or twice mentioned 
as seen in April-May, not at allin June-July, and only once in August. 
In the autumn and winter the position is different; many are seen then, 
but there is, by the way, a considerable difference between their number 
in the earlier and more recent years during which Petersen has lived 
at Angmagsalik. From 1896 to 1903 Falcons were often seen by the 
Station in the months of September to December; the report says that 
several were seen one day, and some days many. Since these years, 
however, their appearance has been much more frequent. Petersen him- 
