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Linnaeus says, that the temples are black ; in the specimen now sent over, and in 

 Mr. Edwards's figure, which Linnaeus quotes, they are white; the breast, back, 

 and wings, are not black as he says, but rather brown and dusky. A further 

 proof, that Linnaeas's anas glacial is and hyemalis are the same, is that the feet 

 in both t. 1 56 and 280 of Edwards are red, and the bill black, with an orange 

 spot. ■( 



Anas. 31. Crecca. 204. 33. Varietas. Teal. Br. Zool. Faun. Am. Sept. 

 17. Severn river, N" 33, 34. Male and female. 



This is a variety of the teal, for it wants the two white streaks above and below 

 the eyes; the lower one indeed is faintly expressed in the male, which has also a 

 lunated bar of white over each shoulder; this is not to be found in the European 

 teal. This species is not very plentiful near Severn river; they live in the woods 

 and plains near little ponds of water, and have from 5 to 7 young at a time. 



Anas. 52. Histrionica 204. 35. Harlequin Duck. Faun. Am. Sept. 16. 

 Edw. t. 99. This bird had no number fixed to it; it agrees perfectly with 

 Edwards's figure. 



Anas. 33. Boschas. 205. 40. Mallard Drake. Faun. Am. Sept. Br. Zool. 

 Severn river, N° 39. 



It is called stock drake at Hudson's Bay, and corresponds in every respect with 

 the European one, upon comparison. 



21. Pelicanus, Pelican. 54. Onocrotalus 25 1 . 1. A variety. York fort. 

 This variety of the pelican, agrees in every particular with Linnaeus's oriental 

 pelecan (pelecanus onocrotalus orientalis), but has a peculiar tuft or fringe of 

 fibres in the middle of the upper mandible, something nearer the apex than the 

 base. This tuft has not been mentioned by any author, and is also wanting in 

 Edwards's pelican, t. 92, with which the society's specimen corresponds in every 

 other circumstance. The P. onocrotalus occiden talis, Linn, or Edw. t. 93 

 American pelican, is very different from it: the chief differences are the colour, 

 which in our Hudson's Bay bird is white, but in Edwards's is of a greyish brown; 

 and the size, which in the white bird is almost double of the brown one. The 

 quill feathers are black, and the shafts of the larger ones white. The alula, or 

 bastard wing, is black. The bill and legs are yellow. 



* 22. Colymbus, Diver, 53. Glacialis. 221. 5. Northern Diver. Br. Zool. 

 Faun. Am. Sept. 16. Churchill river, N° 8. called a Loon there. 



This bird is well described and drawn in the British Zoology, in folio. 



* * Grebe. 56. Auritus, «. 222. 8. Edw. 145. Eared Grebe. Faun. 

 Am. Sept. 15. Severn river. N° 43. 



This is exactly the bird drawn by Edwards, t. 145. The specimen sent over 

 is a female. It differs much from our lesser crested grebe. Br. Zool. octavo i, 

 p. 396, and Br. Zool. illustr. plate 77, fig- 2j and Ed. 96. fig. 2. However, in 



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