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1790. Latham, John. Index Ornithologicns, sive Systema Omithologise * * * 



Contains original description of Xuineiiins luidsonicus, based mainly on a 



specimen from Hudson Bay received from Hutchins. 



1795. Heakne, Samuel. A Journey from Prince of \Vales' Fort in Hudson's Bay to 



the Northern Ocean. 1 vol., 4to, pp. i-xliv, 1-4.58. London, 1795. There is 



also a Dublin edition, 8vo, 1796, and another London edition, 1807. 



Contains notes throughout the narrative on the mammals and birds of the 



region, Chapter X, pp. 358—458, treating exclusively of the natural history 



of those parts of British America known to the author. 



1814. Leach, William Elford. [Description of] Arvicola xardhognatha. <lZoolog- 



■ ical Miscellany; being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. Vol. I, 



p. 60. Plate XXVI. 



"Habitat ad Hudson's Bay." 

 1819. Leach, AV. E. Notice of some animals from the Arctic Regions. <Thomson's 

 Annals Philos., XIII, pp. 60-61. 



A list, slightly annotated, "of the mammalia and birds that have been 

 received from the Northern Expeditions and Avhich have since been sent to 

 the British Museum by the Admiralty." Includes specimens received from 

 Eoss and Parry. 

 1819. Boss, John. A Voyage of Discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, 

 in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring 

 Baffin's Bay and inquiring into the probability of a Northwest Passage. 

 1 vol, 4to, pp. i-xl, 1-252, i-cxxxvi. London. 



Appendix II, pp. xlviii-lx (author not stated) contains an article on the 

 birds and mammals observed about Baffin Bay. 

 1819. Sabine, Joseph. An Account of a new Species of Gull lately discovered on the 

 West Coast of Greenland. <Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Vol. XII, Art. 

 XXXII, pp. 520-523. 



Original description of Larus sabmii. Mention made of a black-headed 

 gull from Hudson Bay, "certainly an undescribed species, bearing a strong 

 resemblance to the Larus Subini except that it has'an even tail and is with- 

 out the dark collar round the neck." (Probably L. Philadelphia). 

 1821. Pabky, William Edwahd. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a N. W. 

 Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1819-20, in her Majesty's Ships 

 Hecla and Griper. 4to. London. 



A few observations relative to the natural history of Melville Island. 

 (See also Supplement to the Appendix, 1824) . 

 1823. Fkanklin, John; and Sabise, Joseph. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores 

 of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21 and 22. By John Franklin. 

 >Zoological appendix by Joseph Sabine, 1 vol., 4to, pp. i-xv, 1-783. 

 London. 



A few species from York Factory mentioned in the appendix. The narra- 

 tive contains a few references to the natural history of Keewatin. 

 1884. Lyon, G. F. The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon, of H. M. S. Hecla, 

 during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry. [Parry's Second 

 Voyage.} 12mo. London. 



Contains numerous notes on natural history, relating especially to the 

 vicinity of Winter Island and Igloolik, Melville Peninsula. 

 ■ 1824^. Macgillivhay, William. Description, Characters, and Synonyms of the Dif- 

 ferent Species of the Genus Larus, with critical and explanatory Remarks. 

 <Memoirs Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc, y, Part I. 



The currently accepted original description of the Eoss Gull occurs on 

 page 249. 



