260 О. Hrıms. 
wise has not been met with in Greenland. It breeds in large numbers 
all over Northern Europe and the eastern parts of Central Europe. It 
is only rarely met with on Iceland. 
The skins of the two shot birds were sent home. 
RAVEN (Corvus corax Г.) (principalis Ridg.)? 
Ravn. E. Gr.: Kernertok — The black one; Karlutok (from the cry). 
The Raven is a fairly common breeding bird at Angmagsalik and 
is one of the few stationary birds there, it often being seen all through 
the winter. During the whole of the autumn up to the new year it is 
common, sometimes in flocks of 20—50. In the severe winter period from 
January it is often very sparse in number, some years entirely absent, 
while in other years it is present in fairly big numbers, even in flocks. 
Petersen writes on March 15th, 1913: “During most of the winter there 
have been exceptionally many Ravens at the shark-holes (holes in the 
ice where sharks are fished). There have been days when we have seen 
as many as 30 at once.” As elsewhere, the Raven here is one of the 
earliest breeding birds, Petersen having received a clutch of eggs taken 
on April 23rd, 1914, and he writes of a nest with newly hatched young, 
found on May 10th, 1907. 
The Raven is one of the most widely-spread birds in Greenland, 
and seems to be almost equally common on the east coast as on the 
west coast. It is also spread over Europe, a part of Asia and North 
America. 
The Raven found in West Greenland is the American race С. с. 
principalis Ridgw., which differs from the typical form by a longer and 
thinner bill, ete. Whether the Raven which is so common at Angmagsalik 
belongs to this or to the typical European form is uncertain, as no skins 
have been sent home; presumably, however, it is the race principalis. 
MARTIN (Delichon urbica urbica L.). 
Bysvale. 
Only once has this bird been seen at Angmagsalik, Petersen having 
sent home the skin of an old bird, shot at Sermilik Fjord in June, 1902. 
He writes on June 13th: “Yesterday and today a swallow was seen 
round here by the parson who has seen it and knows it from Denmark,” 
and on June 26th: “I received one today from Sermilik; it does not 
seem to have lacked food, it being very fat and the alimentary canal 
was quite full of gnats and perhaps other insects too.” One may suppose 
that it was the same bird that was seen on both days. 
The species is new to Greenland, and breeds nowhere nearer than 
