X INTRODUCTION. 



rican coast are included in this Fauna. Eschscholtz's description of a fish taken in 

 Norfolk Sound is quoted, and as I can refer to no work containing any notice 

 sufficiently detailed and accurate to determine the species, or even the genera, of 

 those in the waters of New Caledonia, the popular accounts of voyagers and travel- 

 lers, who have visited that country, have been occasionally transcribed at some 

 length, to supply the want of scientific information. 



The specimens described and figured in the following pages were chiefly col- 

 lected by me at Cumberland House in latitude 54°, at Fort Enterprise in latitude 

 64°, and in the Arctic Sea at the mouth of the Coppermine River in latitude 67°, 

 on Sir John Franklin's first journey*; at Penetanguishene on Lake Huron in lati- 

 tude 44°, in Great Bear Lake in latitude 64°, or in the canoe route between these 

 places, on his second journey ; and in the following quarters by the exertions of 

 others, viz., on the Labrador coast of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from whence I 

 obtained a collection of the Salmon and Coregoni of the Mingan and Musquaw 

 rivers, prepared by Mr. Cuming, of the Hudson's Bay Company ; at Penetangui- 

 shene, where Mr. Todd, surgeon of the Naval depot, procured me a suite of specimens 

 which I submitted to the inspection of Baron Cuvier, together with those obtained 

 on Sir John Franklin's second journey ; and in the Albany River district latitude 

 51°, from whence I have very recently received a series of fresh-water fish in excel- 

 lent condition : in addition to these, Dr. Gairdner, surgeon of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company's establishment, at Fort Vancouver, on the Oregon or Columbia River, 

 sent me a cask full of specimens, which, though much damaged on the voyage, have, 

 with the aid of his valuable notes, furnished the only means I possess of obtaining 

 a knowledge of the fish of that river, and enabled me to understand in part the 

 popular descriptions given in Lewis and Clarke's narrative ; Dr. Scouler, of the 

 Dublin Institution, presented me with a curious salmon, which he obtained on the 

 coast of New Caledonia ; and I am indebted to Peter Warren Dease, Esq., for 

 several kinds of trout from the interior of that country ; by the kindness of Captain 



* The fish observed on Sir John Franklin's first journey are described, and a few of them figured, in the Appendix to 

 his Narrative ; but the specimens, which would have been of great use for comparison with those afterwards obtained, 

 were destroyed by vermin during my absence on the second journey. « »#»«, 



