265 [Weiz. 



American zoology will readily correct such identifications. The 

 accompanying names in the Esquimaux language give an additional 

 interest to the list. Thus the Esquimaux of Labrador had a name for 

 the musk ox, which tends to prove that its range was formerly ex- 

 tended as far south as latitude 5G°-58° on the Peninsula of Labrador, 

 which is an advance southward of about 35° beyond its present high 

 polar limits. Its occurrence has, however, passed out of the memory of 

 the present generation of Esquimaux, as we were informed by Mr. 

 Weiz. 



The fauna, as a whole, is closely allied to that of Southern Green- 

 land, and is very free from the "boreal" species ranging over British 

 North America. Indeed the insect and land-molluscan fauna of 

 Northern Labrador is almost identical throughout with that of South- 

 ern Greenland, as are the climatal, topographical and general geolog- 

 ical features of the coast. Did the mountains of Labrador rise 

 above the snow line, where now they just reach its lower limits, we 

 should have a perfect correspondence between the Atlantic slope 

 of Northern Labrador and that portion of Greenland lying between 

 the 60th and 70th parallels of latitude. 



On the outer islands, lining the coast for fifty miles deep in the 

 vicinity of Hopedale, the birds, insects, land mollusca and vegetation, 

 present an almost purely circumpolar character. Thus the Polyomma- 

 tus Fi'anklinii and some other insects, were very abundant, being 

 the same species as those discovered by Sir John Eoss in high lati- 

 tudes ; and many square miles of rocky islets, supporting no trees or 

 shrubs rising higher than six inches, agree very exactly with descrip- 

 tions of similar lands in latitudes 70° and 80°. This is owing to the 

 immense fields of floating ice filling up the channels and friths be- 

 tween these islands throughout the entire short summer of six weeks, 

 thus greatly reducing the temperature, while in October the bays and 

 inlets freeze up solid until the following June. 



MAMMALIA. 



Ursus maritime. Nenok. 



" americanus. Atlak. 

 Cervus tarandus. Tuktu. 

 Cains lupus. Amarok. 

 Can is. Kremmek. 



" vulpes. Terrieniak. 



" argentatus (an vulpes ? mesomelas.') Kernertak. 



" crucigera. Akkorngartak. 



" vulpes (an V.fulvus.) Kajok. 



" lagopus (an C. lagopus.) Kachortarsukuluk 



