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VOL. III. JULY, 1888. NO. 3. 
NOTES ON SOME OF THE BIRDS AND MAMMALS OF THE 
Hupson’s Bay Co’s. TERRITORIES AND THE 
Arotic Coast. 
By Jonn Rap, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., &c. 
During a residence of twenty years in various parts of 
the Hudson’s Bay Co’s. Territories, embracing the extreme 
south of James’s Bay, Hudson’s Bay and north to the Arctic 
Sea, I had, as a sportsman, many opportunities of paying 
considerable attention to the habits and peculiarities of the 
fauna—especially birds—over a rather extensive field of 
observation, the result of which I shall attempt to give in 
the following remarks, some of which may perhaps be new, 
others disputed, or possibly well known, 
My first ten years in this wild country were spent at 
Moose Factory, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s depot, in the 
southern department, lat. 51° N., long. 81° W., where the 
salt-marshes along the coast afford favorite feeding grounds 
to a great number and variety of water-fowl on their migra- 
tions to and from their breeding place in the north, and 
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