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APPENDIX. 
broods in October, and that not a single species remains during the dreary- 
season of winter. 
An instance did indeed occur in February, of a bird being said to be seen 
by a sailor of the Hecla, who was walking on Melville Island at no great 
distance from the ships. He described it as a large white bird flying very 
near the ground. If it were indeed a bird, it was most probably a strix 
nyctea ; but as neither this, nor any other individual were observed before 
or afterwards, until the general arrival in May, and as scarcely a day 
passed afterwards in which birds of this species were not seen, it seems 
reasonable to conclude that this solitary, and somewhat uncertain, instance 
does not justify an exception to the above general remark. 
2. Corvus Corax. Raven. 
Greenl. Birds, no. 3. Temm. 107. 
Several pairs were seen at Melville Island ; the individuals which were 
killed differed in no respect from the European specimens. 
3. Emberiza Nivalis. Snow Bunting. 
Greenl. Birds, no. 5. Temm. 319. 
Very numerous in the North Georgian Islands, where they are amongst the 
earliest arrivals ; attempts were made to keep them on board in cages through 
the winter, but were unsuccessful ; they soon became apparently reconciled 
to the confinement, but did not long survive the loss of liberty. 
4. Caprimulgus Americanus. Musqueto Hawk. 
Wil. Am. Orn. v. 65. Arct. Zool. no. 337. 
A female of this species was found on Melville Island, lying dead on the 
ground about a quarter of a mile from the sea. These birds are known to 
