Zoologist (Volume 3); A Monthly Journal of Natural History (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Aves, 1831. By keeping this in view there will he little difficulty in identifyiug the species designated. The memoranda at my disposal are a list of species, and a very careful catalogue of the specimens preserved and brought to England; in every instance the sex, with locality and date of capture are duly recorded by Mr. Anderson. Falco peregrinua.?A male and female obtained at Winter Cove, June 1st, 1852. Buteo logopus.?Ascertained to visit Prince Albert Land. This is the most northern locality from which, so far as I am aware, Archibuteo sancti-johannis has been recorded, and is an addition to the avifauna of the islands north of the American continent. Circus sp. ? Doubtless C. hudsonius.?Noted in a similar manner as the preceding; this is likewise the most northern range recorded of the species. Strix nyctea.?It would have been somewhat extraordinary if the Snowy Owl, so generally distributed throughout the Arctic Regions, had not been recorded from Prince Albert Land. Dall and Bannister consider it rather a rare species in the valley of the Lower Yukon. Hirundo bicolor.?A female of this species was obtained at Cambridge Bay, May 20th, 1853. Dall and Bannister mention that it is less common in Alaska than any of the other species, though occurring from Fort Yukon to the sea. Alauda alpettris.?Two Shore Larks were obtained at Winter Cove, June 3rd, 1852. I am not aware of this species having been previously met with in the Parry Archipelago. Linaria minor and Linaria canescens.?Two species of Linnet are recorded under the above names; a female bird procured at Winter Cove, April 27th, 1852, is noted as L. canegcens. In all probability his L. minor is JEgiothus linaria, which is found in vast numbers as a permanent resident in the fur-countries. L. canesce...