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31st. On Мау 15th, 1900 a Greenlander from Sermilik reports that three 
were seen there about two days before, and on June 12th Petersen saw 
one by the Colony. One was shot at the same place on June 10th, 1915. 
The species is only known with certainty on the east coast at Ang- 
magsalik; it has been met with once on the west coast. The same is 
true of this bird as the foregoing, that it is widely scattered over Europe 
and Asıa and is a very common breeding bird on Iceland. 
GREENLAND WHEATEAR (Oenanthe oenanthe leucorrhoa Gm.). 
Disesmutte. Е. Gr.: Ingersiak = He who swings. 
This is one of the commonest birds at Angmagsalik, arrives towards 
the end of April or the beginning of May and remains until September, 
although some remain until October. Indeed, one or two have been found 
in the beginning of November. There is quite a lot of data as to its 
first appearance: 
1895. Last days of April. 
1898. (April 14th at Cape Dan, according to the natives). 
1899. May 5th. 
1900. — 5th (April 24th at Cape Dan, according to the natives). 
1902. Aprıl 27th (April 10th at Sermilik, according to the natives). 
1903. — 24th. 
1905, — ash, 
1906. May Sth. 
1907. — gin. 
1908. April 19th. 
1909. May Ist. 
1912. April 23rd (according to the natives as early as April 17th). 
19182 — 26th: | 
1914. — 24th (according to the natives April 17th). 
1915. May 5th, seen by natives. 
1924. — and. 
It often happens that some time elapses between the appearance 
of the first and those that come later, and it is a frequent occurrence 
that in the spring, after the arrival of the Wheatear, bad weather arrives 
with frost and snow, and the birds have a bad time, and die. Petersen 
writes on May 16th, 1902: “Since yesterday we have found by the houses. 
no less than 4 Wheatears. As the weather for a long time has been raw 
and rainy, I suppose that this, combined with the lack of food, is the 
cause of the many deaths among them.” In 1903 matters were no better 
when the Wheatear arrived. On April 24th Petersen writes: “How it 
will manage is a problem to me, as there is not one spot free of snow 
for miles around.” And on May 10th the same year: “It is doubtless 
