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LIEUT.-COL. II. W. FEILDEN ON THE ZOOLOGY OF 
JX. 
ON THE ZOOLOGY OF CAPTAIN MAEKHAM’S VOYAGE 
TO HUDSON’S BAY IN THE SUMMER OF 188G. 
By Lieut.-Colonel II. W. Feilden, C.M.Z.S., F.G.S. 
Read 2 ^th yamiary, 1887 . 
Captain Albert Markham, E.N., having kindly placed in my 
hands the Journal of his Voyage to Hudson’s Bay in the summer 
of 188G, with his permission, I have the pleasure to lay before tlie 
Society the following notes on the animal life met Avith in that 
region. Mr. II. D. Geldart has kindly undertaken to report upon 
the Botany. 
Captain Markham left England in the beginning of June, 188G, 
for Halifax, to join the “Alert,” Avhich Avas about to be despatehed 
by the Canadian Government to visit and relieve the various 
Meteorological Stations in Hudson’s Bay. The “Alert,” a vessel of 
historic interest in eonnection Avith British and Ameriean Arctic 
Voyages, had been presented by the United States Government to 
Canada, and noAv sails under the Dominion flag, and is commanded 
by Mr. A. B. Gordon, avIio is an Assistant to the Toronto 
jMeteorological Society, and a retired Lieutenant of the Eoyal Na\-y. 
On the 14th of June the “Alert” started from Halifax on her 
cruise, and passing through the Straits of Belleisle, steamed 
nortliAvard along the coast of Labrador. The first three days of 
the voyage Avere rather dreary, as a thick fog surrounded them the 
Avhole time ; it then cleared, and on the 2nd of July the first ice 
Avas met, eonsisting of loose streams of rubbly ice, mostly composed 
of fragmentary portions of icebergs, that Avere being gradually 
broken up by the action of Avaves and weather; but it offered no 
hindrance to the progress of the “Alert.” The next day they 
