Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 Part 12

_Myodes, Lemnus Pallas._ Glires 77 of Sweden.

_Myodes Helvolus._ Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. p. 128, belong to this section. All the museum specimens of these species have small, simple, curved, acute claws.

4. _Myodes Hudsonius._ Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. 132.

Grey, black washed beneath white, sides reddish, sides of the neck red, nose with a central black streak, claws of male(?) very large, compressed, equal, broad to the end, and notched; of female small, acute. In winter with very long black white-tipped hairs. Mr. Rae brought home two males, one in winter and one in change fur, and two females in summer fur.

5. _Myodes Greenlandicus._

Reddish-grey, brown, black varied, back with a longitudinal black streak, beneath grey brown, chest, nape, and sides ruffous. Front claw of males(?) compressed, curved, the under surface (especially of the middle one) with a broad, round, expanded tubercle. I have not seen this species showing any change in its winter fur.

2. _Upper cutting teeth broader, with a central longitudinal groove. The claw of the front thumb strap-shaped, truncated, and notched at the tip._

6. _Myodes Helvolus._ Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. 128. (female?)

Fur very long, black, grey-brown; black grizzled, hinder part of the body reddish, beneath grey, sides yellowish. Claws of the fore feet (of the males?) large, thick, rounded, curved, bluntly truncated at the tip; of the female compressed, curved, acute.

7. _Myodes Trimuconatus._ Richardson, Faun. Bor. Amer. 130.

Bright red brown, head blackish-grey, sides and beneath pale ruffous, chin white, claws moderate, compressed. This species is best distinguished from the former by its larger size and the great brightness of the colour, and the fur being much shorter and less fluffy.

LIST OF THE SPECIES OF BIRDS

_Collected by Mr. Rae during his late Expedition, named according to the "Fauna Boreali-Americana," by G. R. Gray, Esq., F.L.S._

FALCONIDae.

Aquila (Pandion) haliaeeta.

Falco peregrinus.

" islandicus.

Accipiter (Astur) palumbarius.

Buteo lagopus.

" (Circus) cyaneus.

STRIGIDae.

Strix brachyota.

" funerea.

" Tengmalmi.

JANIADae.

Tyrannula pusilla.

MERULIDae.

Merula solitaria.

SYLVIADae.

Sylvicola aestiva.

" coronata.

" striata.

" (Vermivora) rubricapilla.

" " peregrina.

Seiurus aquaticus.

Anthus aquaticus.

FRINGILLIDae.

Alauda cornuta.

Emberiza (Plectrophanes) nivalis.

" " lapponica.

" " picta.

" canadensis.

" (Zonotrichia) leucophrys.

" " pennsylvanica.

" " iliaca.

Fringilla hyemalis.

Pyrrhula (Corythus) enucleator.

Logia leucoptera.

Linaria minor.

STURNIDae.

Quiscalus versicolor.

Scolecophagus ferrugineus.

CORVIDae.

Garrulus canadensis.

PICIDae.

Picus (Apternus) tridactylus.

Colaptes auratus.

RASORES.

Tetrao canadensis.

" (Lagopus) mutus.

" " saliceti.

" (Centrocercus) phasianellus.

GRALLATORES.

Calidris arenaria.

Charadrius semipalmata.