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as inhabitants of the north-west coast*, making in all two hundred and 

 sixty-seven. Now, according to Temminck's Manual, there are three 

 hundred and twenty-six f birds which range in Europe to the north- 

 ward of the forty -eighth parallel ; so that the number of species that 

 remain to be detected in the Fur-countries will not, probably, much 

 exceed sixty ; and we have some reasons, connected with the circum- 

 stances under which the collections were made for believing, that the 

 majority of these will prove to belong to the families of Sylviada, 

 Fririgillidce, and Charadriada. Several of the Procellarice are also 

 known to inhabit Hudson's Bay and the Arctic Sea ; but. from our 

 want of means of identifying the species, they have been omitted. 



The same causes that tended to limit our means of collecting 

 operated, together with my previous ignorance of Ornithology, to 

 prevent my recording the habits of the species to the extent and with 



* List of species that frequent the north-west coast of America, from Pennant's Arctic Zoology ; 

 with references to those described in this work : — 



No. No. 



139 Steller's Crow, Nootka Sound. (Garrulus Stelleri, 260 Cinereous Finch. 



Svv., p. 294, hujus operis.) 381 Black Snipe. (Steller.) 



151 Unalaschka Oriole. 394 Gambet Sandpiper, lat. 091°. 



ICO Red-headed Woodpecker. (Melanerpns erythroce- 397 Little ditto, Nootka Sound. 



phalus, p. 310.) 413 Tringafulicaria. (Phalaropus fulicarius, ip. 407.) 



168 Three-toed ditto, Norton Sound. (Picus (Apter. 415 Plain phalarope. (p. 408.) 



nius) ? p 311 ? 313 ?) 430 Antient Auk. 



169 Belted Kingfisher. (Alcedo alcyon, p. 339.) 432 Tufted ditto. (Mormon cirrhatus, Bon., Syn., No. 

 177 Ruffed Honey-sucker, Nootka. (Trochilus (Selas- 378.) 



phorns) rufus, p. 324.) 431 Pigmy ditto, Behring's Straits. 



186 Norton Sound Bustard. 433 Perroquet ditto,") ditto. (Phaleris psitaccula, Bon., 



197 Varied Thrush. (Orpheus meruloides, Sw., p. 187.) 435 Dusky ditto, j Syn., No. 370.) 



202 Unalaschka Thrush. 434 Crested ditto, ditto. (Phaleris cristatella, Id. p. 426.) 



207 Chatterer, lat. 64° 30'. (Bombycilla garrula, p. 237.) 436 Marbled Guillemot. (Uria marmorata, Id. No. 372.) 



229 Unalaschka Bunting. (Fringilla arctica, Vigors, 457 Ivory Gull, Behring's Straits. 



Beechetfs Birds, p. 20 ?) 463 Fork-tail Petrel, ditto. 



230 Black-crowned ditto, Nootka Sound. 473 Bering Goose. (Steli.er.) 

 232 Unalaschka ditto (second species). 497 Western Duck. 



251 Ferruginous Finch, (a variety,) Unalaschka. 510 Gannet. 



256 Norton ditto. 534 Giant Petrel. 



The Prince of Musignano and Mr. Vigors give, in addition to the above, 

 Charadrius pluvialis, Chamisso Island, (p. 369.) Larus Sabinii, Behr. Straits, (p. 428) 



Mormon glacialis, Behr. Straits. (Bon., Syn., No. 379.) Diomedea fuliginosa, Aleutian Islands. (Via., Beechey's 

 Cerorhinca oecidentalis, ditto. (Id.) Birds, p. 89) 



Lewis and Clark, and the authors we have mentioned in the text, indicate several others. 



t The whole number of European birds described in Temminck's Manual is three hundred and eighty, 

 of which two hundred and thirty-five are land birds. Bonaparte's Synopsis ofthe Birds of the United 

 States contains three hundred and eighty-two species, of which two hundred and fifteen are land- 

 birds ; and one hundred and sixty-seven belong to the orders of Grallatores and Natatores. 



