

FAUNA 



BOREALI -AMERICAN A; 



OR THE 



ZOOLOGY 



NORTHERN PARTS 



BRITISH AMERI CA: 



CONTAINING 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECTS OF NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTED ON THE LATE NORTHERN LAND 

 EXPEDITIONS UNDER COMMAND OF CAPTAIN SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, R.N. 



PART SECOND, 



THE BIRDS. 



BY 



OS 

 WILLIAM SWAINSON, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., 



HONORARY OR CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF SEVERAL. FOREIGN SOCIETIES. 



JOHN RICHARDSON, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., 



HRER OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, OF THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, OF THE 

 LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PARIS, 



SURGEON AND NATURALIST TO THE EXPEDITIONS. 



ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS PLATES AND WOODCUTS. 



rVBIJSHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE SECRETARY OF STATE 



FOR COLONIAL AFFAIRS. 



LONDON : 

 JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. 



MDCCCXXXI. 



