The Birds of Angmagsalik. 269 
having difficulty in securing food, or perhaps it is the cold that is too 
severe, for during the past few days dead ones have been found among 
the houses.” Оп Мау 9th, 1908, we read: “It has not been observed 
since April 19th. The reason is certainly the mass of snow and severe 
frost we are having just now.” 
Petersen does not say much regarding the bird during breeding 
time, but one may take it for granted that there is not much variation 
from the conditions as we know them elsewhere. 
The Wheatear remains there until well into the autumn, as Petersen 
reports: 
1898. October 16th, one or two stragglers; 29th, (Country covered with 
snow), one seen. 
1899. September 27th, a few seen every day. 
1900. October 9th, still seen often in our neighbourhood; 15th, a few 
stragglers; 31st, one seen (snow lying several feet high); November 
Sth, the last one seen. 
1902. October 5th, one or two seen occasionally at the Station; 18th, 
the last one seen. 
1905. October 4th, a few still seen, although the country is thickly 
covered with snow. 
1906. September 20th, only one or two seen; October 12th, two seen. 
1908. October 2nd, still seen; 14th, one seen close to the Colony; 24th, 
I saw one during the day; the country is covered by a thick 
layer of snow. 
1911. October 29th, one or two still seen occasionally.. 
1912. September 20th, only one or two seen at intervals of some days; 
20th, I saw one today; the country is being covered with snow. 
1913. September 20th, only one or two still seen. 
1914. October 13th, the last seen. A large quantity of snow fell. As 
late as November 9th one was seen by the houses, although the 
country is entirely covered with snow. 
1923. October 5th, one or two seen every day; 8th, one or two seen. 
Only one skin of the Wheatear has been sent home, that of a young 
bird in first winter plumage, in size just the same as the form appearing 
in West Greenland, North America and Iceland, О. о. leucorrhoa, rather 
bigger and a little longer in the wings than the typical form, which it 
otherwise resembles in all essentials. In many of the races that are nowa- 
days classified it is doubtless difficult to find any perceptible difference 
in the mode of living, but it seems clear enough that the Wheatear 
that lives in Angmagsalik is another form than the one we have in Den- 
mark. In Denmark the Wheatear is a bird that does not expose itself 
to the harshness of winter. The average time of its appearance here is 
April 10th to 15th, while after the middle of September most of them 
