422 



NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



Edward Sabine reported this species to be very numerous on the 

 North Georgia Islands, where it Avas observed during Parry's first 

 voyage/' Fisher, in his narrative of the same voyage, mentions that 

 several large flocks passed the ships, then lying off Melville Island, 

 on September 2, 1819, evidently commencing their autumnal migra- 

 tion/^ During the following season he first noted the species May 

 15/ Franklin reported the species from Fort Enterprise, and men- 

 tions it as one of the four birds which still remained in the vicinity 

 at the end of October, 1820/' He reported it present also at Fort 

 Franklin in the latter part of October, 1825 ; ^ during the following 

 summer, Richardson noted it breeding on Atkinson Island, near 

 Hutchinson Bay, in July;'' and on July 22, on the shores of Franklin 

 Bay, found a nest containing young.'^ Parry recorded a few seen in 

 the spring of 1825 near Port Bowen.'' John Ross, in 1831, observed 

 the first snow-buntings near Felix Harbor on April 17; the birds 

 were abundant by May 29, and had young ready to fly on July 2-1:.'" 

 Walker recorded the bird from Port Kennedy, where it arrived on 

 May 20, 1859, and nested.^' McCormick records the species from 

 Beechey Island, and other points in "Wellington Channel.^' King- 

 noted the species at Clinton-Colden Lake in June, 1834.' Richard- 

 son reported its arrival in small flocks at Fort Confidence, Great 

 Bear Lake, on April 20, 18-19."' During the voyage of the Investi- 

 gator^ Armstrong noted a few off the coast of Baring Land, east of 

 Nelson Head, September 7, 1850." At the wintering place of the 

 ship, in Prince of Wales Strait near Princess Royal Islands, during 

 the following spring, the species was first noted April 27; " and in 

 1852 it was first seen at Mercy Bay, Banks Land, on April 20.^' Dur- 

 ing the same season Collinson noted the arrival of the bird at Wallcer 

 Bay, Prince Albert Land, on April 12.'^ Hooper noted its arrival at 



« Snppl. to Appendix Parry's First Voyage, p. cxciv, 1824. 



* Journal Voyage of Discovery, p. 109, 1821. 

 c Ibid., p. 191, 1821. 



'^Narrative Journey to Polar Sea, p. 247, 1823. 

 ^ Narrative Second Expedition to Polar Sea, p. 60, 1828. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 217, 1828. 

 ^'Ibid., p. 235, 1828. 

 Journal Third Voyage, p. 82, 1826. 



* Narrative Ross's Second Voyage, pp. 511, 538. 582. 1835. 

 ^' Proc. Roy. Soc. Dublin, III, p. 62, 1860.: 



McCormick's Voyages, II, p. 84 and elsewhere, 1884. 

 ^ Narrative Journey to Arctic Ocean, I, p. 239, 1836. 

 «^ Arctic Searching Expedition, II, p. 104, 1851. 



Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, p. 213, 1857. 

 0 Ibid., p. 314, 1857. 

 P Ibid., p. 513, 1857. 



Journal H. M. S. Enter prist', p. 184, 1889. 



