274 ARCTIC VOYAGES. Chap. VIII. 



From Lieutenant James Clarke Ross the Ap- 

 pendix contains a brief account of the quadrupeds, 

 birds, fishes, and insects, and invertebrate animals. 

 There is also an account by Sir William Hooker of 

 the plants found in the course of this voyage. 

 These may be briefly stated as under, embracing 

 both east and west coast of this portion of America. 



Quadrupeds. — The Polar Bear — Arctic Fox — Lemming 

 — Polar Hare — Rein-deer — Rough Seal — Black Whale — 

 Narwhal. 



Birds. — Iceland Falcon — Snowy Owl — Raven — Lapland 

 Finch — Snow Bunting — Ptarmigan — Rock Grouse — Wil- 

 low Partridge — Golden Plover — Phalarope, 2 species — 

 Gulls, 6 species — Eider Ducks, and various others — Little 

 Auk, and 2 others. 



Fishes.— Ophidium, 2 species — Cottus, 2 species — Pleu- 

 ronectes, not very numerous. 



Insects. — 12 species, 4 of them Spiders, 1 Bee, 1 Ant, 

 1 Gnat, 1 Butterfly ; the other 4 are Simulium, Cteno- 

 phorae, Bombus, and Bombyx. 



The Invertebrate animals, which are numerous 

 and not of very familiarised names, in Latin, may be 

 passed over. 



The Botany of the two last voyages, by Sir 

 William Hooker, embraces 21 families of the natural 

 order, but, as he observes, " a small number of 

 species, owing to the few opportunities that were 

 afforded for the officers to go on shore, as well as 

 to the extreme poverty of the soil in those places 

 that were visited." 



Of the notes on the geology of the countries 

 visited, in the second and the present voyage, by 



