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APPENDIX, 



[No. V. 



A. 



Segetum* - 



- - - Bean Goose. 



A. 



Albifrons, - - 



- - - White-fronted Goose. 



A. 







A. 







A. 







A*. 







A; 



Strcpera, - - 



- - - Gadwall.. 



A. 



Nigra, - - - 



- - - Seoter.. 



A. 



Fuligula, - - 



- - - Tufted Duck: 



A. 



Clangula, - - 



- - - Golden Eye. 



A. 



Glacialis, - - 



- - - Long-tailed Duck. 



A. 



Histrionica, 



- - - Harlequin Duck. 



Several of the birds above enumerated have been described under different names,, 

 occasioned by remarkable variations in the plumage of the sexes, or of the young 

 birds from their parents, but it is believed that the above twenty-one species are all 

 which can correctly be considered as common to Europe and America. 



Of the birds belonging to the genus which are found in Hudson's Bay and its vici- 

 nity, but which do not visit or live in any part of Europe, there are eight species; 

 specimens of six of these were brought home by 1 Captain Franklin, and are subse- 

 quently particularized \ the remaining two are : — 



A. Canadensis, - - - - - Canada Goose.' 

 A. Labradoria; - - - - - Pfed Duck* 



These are both described and figured by Wilson ; the former is well known in mena- 

 geries in Europe, and is frequently kept in a half-domesticated state, on large pieces 

 of water and lakes, but though frequently shot when apparently wild, has probably 

 in all such cases strayed from its adopted home ; since none of the species has been 

 traced in a state of migration. 



Exclusive of the birds above-mentioned, and described below, there are other 

 species known in America; but as they do not go so far north as the countries, visited 

 by the Expedition, it is not considered necessary to include them in these notices. 



Alias FerspiciUatai Black or Surf Duck; 

 M Temmihck has introduced this bird into his Manuel as having been occasionally 

 though very rarely seen in the Orkneys and in high latitudes in Europe. As it has 

 not, however, been mentioned as a British bird by any English author, nor included 

 in any published list of the visitors of fthe British Islands, the circumstance of its ever 

 having been obtained in the Orkneys seems to require confirmation, and therefore it has 

 not been^here considered <as one of the species common to Europe and America. The 

 Black D&ek is frequent in the northern parts of the New World, it is smaller than 



