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sitting upon а laid-up skin-boat.” March 3rd, 1915: “I received today 
from a man from Sermiligak a Starling which he had caught by hand 
at one of the settlements up there some time in the autumn, presumably 
about the end of September or the beginning of October.” 
Thus the Starling goes astray occasionally and arrives at Ang- 
magsalik, its habits from other places leading it to stay around human 
habitations. 
On the east coast the Starling is only known at Angmagsalik, on 
the west coast it has been met with once. Its nearest breeding place 
is the Faroe Islands, where a separate race is to be found, but to which 
the Greenland Starling does not belong. It is а breeding bird in most 
parts of Europe and a part of Asia, breeds in Norway as far up as the 
most northerly areas of the country. The Starling is seen on Iceland 
now and then, and during the past few years every autumn in small 
flocks at Eyrarbakki in Southern Iceland, according to P. NIELSEN. 
It might possibly be imagined that the East Greenland Starling, of 
which three of them were also met with in the autumn, were of the 
same origin as those found at Eyrarbakki. 
The following skins were sent home: 
1) 27th October, 1896. Winter plumage. Wing 129 mm., Tail 70 mm., 
Tarsus 51 mm. 
2) 30th October, 1898. Winter plumage. Wing 130 mm., Tail 67 mm., 
Culmen 22 mm. 
3) Sth May, 1901. Head of bird in summer plumage with yellow bill. 
Culmen 22 mm. 
4) Christmas 1906. Old bird in winter plumage. 
5) ist October, 1913. | 
MEADOW PIPIT (Anthus pratensis L.). 
Enspiber. 
The Meadow Pipit is a scarce breeding bird at Angmagsalik, does 
not appear every year. Petersen had lived there several years without 
observing it; not until 1903 does he mention it in his diary. On May 
21st he saw four or five by the houses, shot and sent home one for pur- 
poses of identification. He still saw them in May-June, and in July he 
saw them with young. On a trip to the Sermilik Fjord at the beginning 
of June he saw them there too, in pairs, and to all appearances they 
had nests in the vicinity. After that he does not mention them until 
1908, when on May 9th he saw one among the houses of the Colony; 
he saw it again on May 12th and heard it sing. In 1912 one was seen 
on May 5th. On June 11th it was reported that one was singing on the 
mountains all day, and at the same place one was seen on July 13th, 
