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APPENDIX. 
32. Uria Alle. Little Auk. 
Temm. 928. — Alca Alle. Greenl. Birds, no. 13. 
The reasoning on which Temminck has been induced to alter the generic 
name of this species is satisfactory ; the bird does not, indeed, wholly accord 
with the characters either of the Alca or Uria, being intermediate between 
them ; but it appears preferable that it should be ranged under the latter. 
This species, as well as the preceding, is not common in the Polar Sea ; its 
great breeding station is in the northern part of Baffin’s Bay. 
These thirty-two species comprise tlie whole of the birds which were seen 
within the Arctic circle under circumstances which admitted of their being 
identified ; and are exclusive of a species of Numenius, three individuals of 
which flew past one of the ships’ boats in Prince Regent’s Inlet; and^a species 
of Hirundo, (possibly Riparia,) which the Serjeant of Artillery, who had a 
good knowledge of birds, stated that he saw on two occasions in the excursion 
across Melville Island, in June, 1820. 
In the Memoir on the Greenland Birds, fifty-four species were enumerated, as 
comprehending the whole of those which have been described by authors to 
inhabit Greenland and its coasts ; the present voyage has added one species 
to this list, the Falco Tinnunculus, an individual of which flew off to the ship, 
when passing Cape Farewell on the passage home, and was killed. 
The Procellaria Puffinus, which had escaped notice on the first voyage, Avas 
also seen in great abundance off Cape Farewell ; it is the bird which is called 
by the Whalers the Cape Hen : these two species are not included in the 
present account, which is limited to birds seen within the Arctic circle. 
