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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

angle there is a spurious ocellus consisting of a black semicircle, a blue crescent, a black, and lastly an orange transverse spot. The legs of this species are black, as are also the nervures of both wings. Fabricius says that this species is thrice the size of P. Machaon, but the specimens I received, of which there were several, were of the same size. In Mouffet's figure, referred to by Ray, which appears to belong to the insect here described, the expansion of the wings is eight inches, but his

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A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image

other; while looking up through the roof, we could easily discern the stare twinkling in a blue and cloudiess sky. We did not, however, feel the air too cool; and our lodging was quite as good as that in which the Missionaries to the Sandwich Islands passed their first night in Honoruru; and much better than Mr. Marsden, and his companion, procured in New Zealand. The first night he passed on shore, he slept on the earthen floor, by the side of a warrior, the murderer of the crew of the Boyd

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A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image

they would not only kill, but eat certain kinds of shark; the large blue sharks, squalus glaucus, were deified by them, and, rather than attempt to destroy them, they would endeavour to propitiate their favour by prayers and offerings. Temples were erected, in which priests officiated, and offerings were presented to the deified sharks, while fishermen and others, who were much at sea, sought their favour. Many ludicrous legends were formerly in circulation among the people, relative to the regard

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A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image

, the natives were alarmed, and during the occasional intervals in which the wind abated its violence, the rain came down in such torrents, as if the windows of heaven had been opened, and s deluge was descending. The rain calmed in a degree the broken and agitated surface of the dark blue ocean, that raged in fearful and threatening violence. Our boat being but small, not above eighteen feet long, and her edge, when the sea had been smooth, not more than a foot or eighteen inches above its

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A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image

be this peaceful reign! The one at Hushine was of fine blue cloth, with a white dove and olive branch in the centre, beneath which was inscribed the Angels' Song, as the motto of the school. Sometimes the children, as they passed along, would sing, Long be this peaceful reign, or any other motto that might be inscribed upon the banner. And when they walked through the district, a father or mother, or both, came out of the door of their little cottages, and gazed with highest pleasure on them as

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A549.1 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 1 Text Image

the paasing breeze, the bright and clear blue sky that appeared at intervals through the foliage, and the distant hills whose summits were burnished with the splendour of the retiring sun I almost imagined the intensity and rapidity of his glance indicated an impression that he would never gaze on them again. Such was the conviction of my own mind; and I reluctantly retired, more deeply then ever impressed with the necessity of early and habitual preparation for death. O! how different would the

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

vengeance, in punishing transgressors. The large blue shark was the only kind supposed to be employed by the gods; and a variety of the most strange and fabulous accounts of the deeds they have performed are related by their priests. These voracious animals were said always to recognize a priest on board any canoe, to come at his call, retire at his bidding, and to spare him in the event of a wreck, though they might devour his companions, especially if they were not his maru, or worshippers. I have

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

of sandal, or elegant open-worked boot. The arms were frequently marked with circles, their fingers with rings, and their wrists with bracelets. The thin transparent akin over the black dye, often gave to the tatau a tinge of blue. The females seldom, if ever, marked their faces; the figures on their feet and hands were all the ornaments they exhibited. Many suffered much from the pain occasioned by the operation, and from the swelling and inflammation that followed, which often continued for a

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

which, found in Sir Charles Sanders' Island, are of a dark blue colour, and so light as to float on the water, though apparently containing a portion of iron. A large specimen of the latter kind, which I have from this island, is more porous than any I ever met with among the volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands, and is so completely honeycomb in its structure, that it is difficult to account for its formation. After remaining some time at Borabora, we took leave of our friends, and sailed for

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A549.2 Beagle Library: Ellis, William. 1829. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years on the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the islands-with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants. 2 vols. London: Fisher, Son & Jackson. vol. 2. Text Image

, some of which being large loose gowns of highly glazed chintz of a brilliant red and yellow colour, intermixed with dresses of black and blue broad cloth presented a novel spectacle. The principal part of Pomare's dress was manufactured in the islands, and worn after the ancient fashion. Aimata wore a white English gown, a light pink scarf, and a finely platted hibiscus bonnet trimmed with white ribands. The queen, Pomare-vahine, and all the females of the royal party, appeared in white dresses

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A708.2 Beagle Library: Dillon, Peter. 1829. Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas: performed by order of the government of British India, to ascertain the actual fate of La Peyrouse's expedition. 2 vols. London: Hurst, Chance. vol. 2. Text

of the Tucopian before sailing how many chiefs there were at the above place; and being informed that there were four, I sent by one of the boats a present for each of them, to ensure the party a good reception. This present consisted of one yard of red cloth, one of blue gurrah, one palampore, one axe, one knife, one pair of scissors, and one string of red beads. This morning two young men brought on board the two largest iron bolts we had yet seen: the one measured in length 3 feet 8 9/10 [page

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A708.2 Beagle Library: Dillon, Peter. 1829. Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas: performed by order of the government of British India, to ascertain the actual fate of La Peyrouse's expedition. 2 vols. London: Hurst, Chance. vol. 2. Text

fined to king's ships at the time of the wreck of la P rouse. 20th. Fine trade weather. All the male inhabitants in our neighbourhood came off to-day with cocoa-nuts, bananas, and a few fish of the mullet species, also some of another sort, curiously variegated with blue, yellow, black, and grey lines down the sides. There were several sharks about the ship of a monstrous size, spotted black and white; we hooked one of them, and notwithstanding he struggled for nearly half an hour, suspended

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A708.2 Beagle Library: Dillon, Peter. 1829. Narrative and successful result of a voyage in the South Seas: performed by order of the government of British India, to ascertain the actual fate of La Peyrouse's expedition. 2 vols. London: Hurst, Chance. vol. 2. Text

a lively fire of dry wood, round which the villagers flocked on account of the chilliness occasioned by the wind and rain. I purchased from these people the undermentioned articles, viz. 1 brass sheave for a frigate's topmast, 12 4/10 inches in diameter. 1 piece of iron bolt bent into a shark-hook; and 1 piece of blue glass tube, which was transversely fixed through the cartilage of a man's nose, 3 inches long, and shaped exactly like that procured yesterday. [page] 25

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

To speak of the COLOURS of these animals to the uninitiated, who are ambitious of describing things by their proper technical stable names, here followeth the horseman's and sportsman's phraseology in the case, in which by the by, mirabile dictu, we have yet no novelty or addition. The colours of horses are thus expressed BLACK, WHITE; GREY, DAPPLED GREY, IRON GREY, FLEA-BITTEN GREY; red, nutmeg, and blue ROAN; STRAWBERRY; BALD, face whited; PYEBALD (spotted); DUN; CHESTNUT, light and dark

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

occasionally to mount the box of the old Ipswich blue coach and six, the postilion, a poor lad of fourteen, was at [page] 22

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A914 Book: Lawrence, John. 1829. The horse in all his varieties and uses. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Text

rule of this kind would induce a real Babylonish confusion of tongues among us. Then again we must reject, as vulgar and illiterate, the old abbreviations, and articulate precisely every syllable, a pleasant instance of which occurred to me formerly. I dined at the Old Blue Posts, at Witham, in Essex, and chancing to introduce the name of the town of Cocksall, as we in the old time pronounced it, the waiter, a young man of the improved class, though the schoolmaster had not then been abroad

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

.) Nemoral Chl nius. Chl nius nemoralis. Say. Amer. Trans. N. S. 65, 8. De J. Col opt. ii, 332, 34. amethystinus. De J. Cat. 8. Carabus amethystinus. Melsh. Cat. Length of the body 6 lines. A pair taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland-house. I have excluded the synonyms of Fabricius and Olivier, to which De Jean has added a mark of interrogation, because they both describe the species they call C. amethystinus, as blue underneath, of which colour our insect has not the slightest shade

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

: prothorax subquadrangular with the posterior angles rounded, emarginate at the base, as well as at the apex, slightly channelled, with a pair of linear basilar impressions on each side, the external one being oblique and the other longitudinal: elytra rather deeply furrowed with two punctiform impressions, in the usual situation; viewed in the sun, the elytra exhibit changeable shades of blue and bronze: forebreast piceous: legs clear testaceous. [page] 3

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

DESCRIPTION. This species appears to be related to P. lucublandus, but it is narrower in proportion, the upper surface of the body is of a changeable colour, green or copper, as the site varies in the gazer's hand. The basilar impressions of the prothorax are green and blue and more grossly and distinctly punctured; the lateral margin is not dilated posteriorly or depressed, as in the other P cili: the sides of the elytra are green, their furrows are more distinctly punctured than even those

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

. Ins. v, t. 167. Vill. Ent. i, 414, 8. Schrank Enum. 441. H r. Ins. 407. Martin Eng. Ent. t. xli, f. 23. Sch ff. Ic. t. lxxi, f. 3. Berk. Syn. i, 110. Stew. Elem. ii, 89. Length of the body 3 lines. Several taken in Lat. 54 . DESCRIPTION. Head, breast, two last joints of the abdomen, base of the tibi and apex of the thighs, black: prothorax, legs, and four first segments of the abdomen testaceous: elytra dark blue; antenn dusky. Family LATHROBID . Lathrobidans. XLI. Genus LATHROBIUM. Grav. (120

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

DESCRIPTION. Body very short, between pear-shaped and ovate, deep violet, naked, minutely punctured. Head black, rostrum levigated: prothorax somewhat lozenge-shaped, emarginate anteriorly, very thickly and confluently punctured, with a levigated discoidal longitudinal line: elytra furrowed, furrows punctured. VARIETY B. Blue-green. Family ANTHRIBID . Anthribidans. CIX. Genus ANTHRIBUS. Fab. (275) 1. ANTHRIBUS FASCIATUS. Banded Anthribus. Macrocephalus fasciatus. Oliv. Ent. iv, 80, 9, 9, t. i

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

subovate, very black, underneath glossy. Head irregularly punctured behind: antenn underneath piceous at the base: prothorax very minutely and lightly punctured, pale-yellow with two black round dots in the disk between which above the scutellum is a less black triangular impression: elytra very minutely and lightly punctured: forebreast pale-yellow. VARIETY B. Elytra with a blue tint. Family GALLERUCID . Gallerucidans. CXVII. Genus GALLERUCA. Geoff. * Elongat . (292) 1. GALLERUCA OLIVIERI. Olivier's

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

. * DONACIA EMARGINATA. Emarginate Donacia. D. (emarginata) atro-c rulea, subtus argenteo-sericea: elytris impressis; podice emarginato. Emarginate Donacia, black-blue, underneath with silver pile: elytra impressed: podex notched. Length of the body 3 lines. Taken with the preceding. [page] 22

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

fringe is alternately black and white, so as to form white creseents; underneath, at the base, the costa is alternately barred with blue-gray and black; the transverse band is more red, at the costa it is tipped with white, and at the anal angle with pale-yellow; between it and the base are two red streaks, the inner one branching from the band; beneath these is an indistinct eyelet, with a black pupil and gray iris; above the band near the costa is an irregular angular eyelet, or two blue

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

. DESCRIPTION, Extracted from Wilson's Ornithology. The male Barred Owl measures sixteen inches and a half in length, and thirty-eight inches in extent. Upper parts a pale brown, marked with transverse spots of white. Wings barred with alternate bands of pale-brown and darker. Head smooth, very large, mottled with transverse touches of dark-brown, pale-brown, and white. Eyes large, deep-blue*, the pupil not perceivable. Face, or radiated circle of the eyes, grey, surrounded by an outline of brown and

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

, and Louisiana; thereby confounding Wilson's with the northern bird. Upon these grounds do we consider the ardosiaceus as an imaginary species, and to which, consequently, we cannot assimilate our present bird. But may not this be the excubitor of Wilson; as it agrees with the light colour of the plumage and the two entirely black tail feathers mentioned by that writer? True: but the size is much smaller; and the bill, instead of being light blue, is very deep glossy black. We have, moreover

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

of bright and deep carmine or rose-colour, narrowing into a line down the middle of the body; under wing covers the same: rest of the under plumage white, with a few black stripes down the middle of the flank feathers. Legs and feet, according to Wilson, light-blue. Eyes hazel. FORM, typical of the American division of the genus. Bill strong, culmen gently curved, profile of the gonyx straight; under mandible rather thicker and deeper than the upper, with an internal tooth at its base; commissure

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

blue-purple: the gloss on the quills and tail is very faint. FORM, typical. Bill short, conic, Finch-like; the culmen or ridge is convex and very slightly arched, the tip not depressed, and both mandibles entire. Wings long, pointed; the first quill generally longest, the second very nearly equal,- lesser quills truncate and slightly emarginate. Tail slightly forked in the middle; but its sides rounded (as in the Ceblepyri ), reaching an inch and a quarter beyond the wings. Tarsi lengthened

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

DESCRIPTION Of a male, killed at Fort Franklin, in March, 1826. COLOUR black, with a greenish tint on the upper plumage, and reflecting purple and steel-blue: the ventral aspect is less glossy. Bill and feet black. Irides dark chestnut-brown. FORM. Nasal feathers half the length of the bill. Tail considerably rounded, and about two inches longer than the wings. Length, 26 inches; weight, 40 ounces. A pied individual was killed on the south branch of the Mackenzie, from a flock of the common

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

, particularly the forehead and tail, of emerald and duck greens, pansy-purple, steel-blue, and gold-yellow. Bill, irides, and legs black. DIMENSIONS. Inch. Lin. Length, total 20 6 of tail 12 3 of wing 8 6 of bill above 1 5 Length of bill to rictus 1 9 of tarsus 2 0 of middle toe 1 1 Length of middle claw 0 6 of hind toe 0 6 of its claw 0 6 Ten specimens, of both sexes, varied only half an inch in total length, the tail being the same in all: the bills of most were somewhat shorter than the

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

, scarcely discernible in the Blue Jay, and not nearly so much developed in the Whiskey-Jack. Tail shorter than that of the latter, but equally rounded. The tarsus, which is more robust, is protected anteriorly with the same number of scutelli (eight) as that of G. Canadensis. DIMENSIONS. Inch. Lin. Length, total 10 0 of tail 4 3 of wing 5 2 Length of bill above 0 8 of bill to rictus 0 10 of tarsus 1 6 Length of middle toe 0 9 of its nail 0 3 of hind toe 0 5 of hind nail 0 4 * The quills of the specimen

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

. Sw. DESCRIPTION Of a male, killed near the sources of the Athabasca River, lat. 57 . COLOUR. Dorsal aspect throughout shining velvet-black, with a Prussian-blue reflexion from the head, and a greenish one from the back. Crown bright saffron-yellow, approaching to Dutch-orange*. Five rows of white spots on the greater quills, nearly obsolete on the posterior lesser ones: none of the quills are tipped with white. A stripe from the rictus to the side of the neck and the under plumage white

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

, anterior border of the wing above and beneath, and the tail, pitch black: the two outer tail feathers edged on the top with brownish-white. Rump, tail coverts, lesser quills, and all the under plumage, with the inner wing coverts, pure white: shafts of the secondaries black. Bill greenish-blue, its tip blackish-grey. Orbits dark-brown. Irides yellowish-brown. In young birds several of the exterior lesser quills are barred and blotched with black. R. FORM, typical. Bill stout; ridge slightly arched

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

tail is also considerably longer than in the Blue Kingfishers of the Old World, and nearly all the quill feathers are very distinctly mucronate. The hind toe and claw is much shorter in this species than the smallest of the anterior toes. In other respects it does not deviate from the European type. Sw. DIMENSIONS. Inch. Lin. Length, total 13 9 of tail 3 10 of wing 6 6 of bill above 2 2 Length of bill to rictus 2 10 of naked thigh 0 4 of tarsus 0 4 of middle toe 0 8 Length of middle nail 0 4 of

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

tipped with deep indigo-blue. A collar, base of the neck above, interscapulars, part of the scapulars, the flanks, and vent, finely undulated with brownish-black and white. Outer border of the scapulars black; the interior and longer scapulars, wing coverts, primaries, posterior part of the back and tail, hair-brown; tail coverts velvet-black 3 L 2 [page] 44

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

. HUDSON'S BAY RESIDENTS. DESCRIPTION Of a male, killed June 14, 1822, at Winter Island, lat. 66 11 N. COLOUR. Circumference of the frontal plates, forehead, crown, and under eyelid, deep scotch-blue; hind head, nape, and temples, siskin-green. Stripe on the top of the head, cheeks, chin, neck, breast, back, scapulars, lesser coverts, curved tertiaries, sides of the rump, and under wing coverts, white; the tertiaries tinged with greenish-yellow, and the breast with buff. Greater coverts, quills

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A919.2 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2. Text PDF

greyish-blue. Irides yellow. Legs blackish-brown. FORM, typical. Bill rather shorter than the head, wide, much depressed and obviously broadest before the nostrils; pitted near the point; the unguis small and distinct, as in the two last species. Lamin strong, cutting: upper ones entirely within the margin of the mandible. Head rather large. Wings an inch and a quarter shorter than the tail; first quill the longest. Our specimens are smaller than English ones killed in the winter, the head, bill

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

deeper than the general tint; the opercula are also traversed with many olivaceous bands. When the fish dies the colour changes, and is then sometimes all blue or black, and the bands disappear. LENGTH eighteen or twenty inches. It is one of the best fishes in Lake Erie, and is salted. It is taken at all seasons of the year by the seine or hook and line. CICHLA MINIMA. (Le Sueur.) FORM. Body very long, sub-compressed, elevated before the dorsal. Head arched, very large. Eye very large. Teeth very

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

. Fabricius, while sailing along the Greenland coast, saw a fish of a shining blue colour swim past. The Greenlanders named it Keblernak, and Fabricius supposes that it may have been the Labrus exoletus of Linn us, a North Sea fish, which is a Crenilabrus in Cuvier's system, and is remarkable for having five spines in its anal fiu. The sub-genus Crenilabrus is distinguished from the true labri solely by having a denticulated preoperculum. Its numerous species were included by Bloch in his genus Lutjanus

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

ruleus, MITCHILL); C. minutus, SMITH. C. ventricosus, PALL., and C. gelatinosus, IDEM, inhabit the sea between Kamtschatka and America. [105.] 1. CYCLOPTERUS LUMPUS. (Linn.) The Lump. FAMILY, Discoboli. CUV. GENUS, Cyclopterus. LINN. Sub-genus, Lumpus. CUV. Cyclopterus lumpus. FABR., Faun. Gr nl., p. 131. Common lump. PENN., Arct. Zool., Suppl., p. 110. No. 13. Blue lump fish (Cyclopterus c ruleus). MITCHILL, i., p. 480, pl. II., f. 7. Nepeesa, Angusedlok, male, Arnardlok, female, GREENLANDERS

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

. SQUALUS (CARCHARIAS) TERR -NOV . (Richardson.) Newfoundland Shark. Green-backed shark (Squalus punctatus). MITCHILL, i., p. 483? I am indebted to Mr. Audubon for a small and apparently young specimen of this shark. It is closely allied to the carcharias glaucus by the form of its teeth, which are not however serrated, at least in the young state, and its pectorals cannot be said to be very long and much pointed like those of the Blue shark. The Green-backed shark of Mitchill agrees with ours in the

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

crescents, in all the varieties, are four white dots, two at the base and two at the apex of the elytra; the middle broken or tortuous band resembles the figure 7 reversed, and does not terminate in a marginal streak. The body underneath, as usual, is golden-green, or green with clouds of blue, above it is dark brown with a tint of copper. VARIETY. B. With the apical dots not larger than the humeral. C. With an interrupted crescent at the apex. D. With three apical and two humeral dots; intermediate

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

subemarginate; mandibles piceous; antenn rufous, longer than the prothorax with the third joint rather longer than the fourth: prothorax dusky-green, transverse, rather narrowest at the apex, very thick and minutely punctured; basilar impressions double, the inner one the longest: elytra black with a very faint tint of blue: legs rufous. This is most probably the Chl nius emarginatus of Say, but it does not exactly accord with De Jean's description. (d.) CYSTOPODA. Kirb. ( ) DIMANA. Kirb. Family AGONID

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

DESCRIPTION. Body black-blue, cloathed underneath with pile, in certain lights, glittering like silver. Antenn black: tubercles of the prothorax prominent: elytra with an impression near the suture: last dorsal segment of the abdomen emarginate: thighs very thick, bronzed, posterior one with a stout tooth. This species comes very near D. serieea, but it is sufficiently distinguished by its deeply notched podex, and the silver pile that cloaths its body underneath, which in that species has a

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A919.3 Beagle Library: Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 3. Text

DESCRIPTION. Body dark blue, glossy, minutely punctured, rather hairy. Punctures on the head and prothorax nearly confluent and larger than those of the underside of the body; antenn black, last joint subquadrangular: sides of the prothorax obtusangular: scutellum black: longer punctures of the anterior half of the elytra arranged in rows with the interstices minutely punctured, the rows then disappear, and the whole of the apex is indiscriminately and minutely punctured: legs black with a

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the American representative of L. Phl as, but its colour is much less vivid. CLXXXVI. Genus POLYOMMATUS. Lat. (419) 1. * POLYOMMATUS LUCIA. Lucia Polyommatus. P. (Lucia) alis supra argenteo-c rulcis margine tenuissime nigro; primoribus subtus cinerascentibus, ocellis quatuor marginalibus indistinctis; fascia maculari, lunulaque disci, nigris, albido cinetis; secundariis subtus fusco-cinereis, albido nigroque maculatis; ocellis in margine quinque. Lucia Polyommatus, wings above silvery-blue, with a

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DESCRIPTION. Wings above silvery-blue, terminating, especially at the posterior margin, in a very slender black line: fringe white barred with black: primaries underneath ash-coloured mottled with white; in the disk is a black crescent and a curved macular band, consisting of, mostly, oblique black crescents edged with white, especially on their under side; the wing terminates posteriorly in a broadish, brown band, formed chiefly by obsolete eyelets: the secondaries are brown; underneath

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Smerinthus, primaries angulated, dusky-cinereous, banded and clouded with brown and whitish; with a transverse, angular, white line; secondaries rose-coloured, with an eyelet near the anal angle, formed by a black pupil and atmosphere, and a blue interrupted iris. PLATE IV, FIG. 4. Expansion of the wings 2 inches. Taken in North America, locality not stated. [page] 30

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DESCRIPTION. Body black, with black hairs and bristles. Eyes brown; cheek and front ferruginous, in certain lights exhibiting something of a golden lustre: feelers long, slender, reddish-yellow: trunk slightly hoary, with three very indistinct black dorsal stripes: wings hyaline, with the intermediate areolet projecting internally into an acute angle: winglets white terminated by a white nervure: abdomen heart-shaped, glossy, blue with a slight tint of green. This seems to be the American

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Maldonado. from the eastward, or N. E., the set along shore into the river must be guarded against. Steering this S. S.W. course, the depth of water will increase to 20 and 22; and some casts, perhaps of 25 or 27 fathoms, (if you are set neither to the westward nor to the southward of it), and the bottom will change, first to sandy mud and then to dark-blue mud, as you approach the latitude of Lobos. If you are set to the southward, in steering S. S. W. you will not deepen so much; the bottom

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February, 1815, under convoy of H. M. S. Grampus. The Winchelsea* anchored in 12 fathoms blue mud, with Rajah Bassa Peak N. E. by E. E., extremes from N. E. to S. E. E., off shore 1 mile, which is a good birth for watering, there being two runs of fine water issuing from the high land nearly abreast, and another to the eastward of Cocoa-nut Point, either of which would supply a fleet of ships. The fleet from China, under convoy of H. M. S. Cornelia, Capt. William Owen, anchored here January

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DESCRIPTION. Very near V. Urtic , but distinet. Antenn black; knob pale at the tip; a white spot at the base of each joint: wings angular, subsinuated and dentated, black-brown, above with a marginal orange-tawny band common to both, which at the anterior extremity terminates in a fork, or two branches tipped with white, or pale; there are also two orange-tawny bars at the anterior margin of the primaries: the secondary wings have a series in the margin consisting of five blue crescents

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called BALLASORE ROAD, affords good anchorage, the bottom being mostly stiff blue clay, intermixed with sand at times, or small stones. With Mypurra Island off the point, bearing about S. W., there is a spot of bright yellow clay like ochre, which is well in toward the land. Where to anchor in the S. W. monsoon. During unsettled weather in the S. W. monsoon, it may frequently happen that a ship cannot round the reef off Point Palmiras so near as intended, to enable her to anchor on the north

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also procured, but cocoa-nuts are in the greatest abundance, on which all the animals are fed, there being no sort of grain. Ships from the Coromandel Coast, stop here at times, to load with cocoa-nuts, which they receive in barter for coarse blue cloth, or other piece goods; and with the cargo procured here, they proceed to Rangoon, where they receive for it in exchange, a cargo of plank for ship building. * Capt. Corry, of the Royal Navy, made it in lon. 94 20 E. or 6 1 West of the Fort of

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CANIS LAG. var. FULIGINOSUS. Sooty Fox. Canis Lagopi varietas. PALLAS, glires, p. 12. An. 1778. Sooty Dog. PENNANT, Hist. Quad., vol. i. p. 257. Kernektak. FABRICIUS, Fauna Gr nl., p. 20. An. 1790. Canis fuliginosus. SHAW, Zool., vol. i. p. 331. Blue Fox (and Canis fuliginosus.) MACKENZIE'S Travels in Iceland, p. 337. Le chien brun. DESMAREST, Mamm. in notis, p. 205. Tree-inn uck-kannortoot (black foxes.) ESQUIMAUX. This is evidently a mere variety of the Arctic fox, similar to the black

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account of a specimen belonging to the Prince of Musignano, which was killed on the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania. This species is said to be common throughout the mountainous regions of the United States; but its identity with the Lepus Virginianus of Harlan has not been ascertained, and it may be observed, that nothing is said in Dr. Godman's description respecting the fawn-coloured margins of the ear, which distinguish the Lepus Virginianus, in its winter dress, from the Polar hare. In its

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body is white. Bill bluish-black. Cere bluish. Iris orange-coloured. Feet pale-blue. FORM, c. Bill short and strong; the cutting margin of the upper mandible is straight to its hooked tip, with the exception of a slight angular projection near the corner of the mouth and an obscure lobe about its middle. The nostrils, oblong-oval, extend, with a slight degree of obliquity, nearly the whole length of the cere. The feathers of the forehead project so as almost to conceal the cere above, and the lores

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strong, sharp, and curved, and are well adapted to the mode in which these birds kill their prey, which is by a stroke of the foot. There are some prominent tubercles on the under surface of the toes, probably intended to act as cushions in preserving the toes in the proper degree of curvature when in the act of giving the stroke. The European Peregrine Falcon, or, as it is termed provincially in England, the Duck-hawk, Haggard, or Blue-backed Falcon, was held in high esteem as long as the art of

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transverse ones on the belly. The under tail coverts are crossed by distant narrow bars, and the thigh feathers are more closely barred. Bill greenish-blue. Cere and naked skin round the eye gamboge-yellow. Iris yellow. Legs yellow. Claws black. FORM, c. Bill short and strong; upper mandible much curved, and armed with an acute tooth; lower mandible truncated at the tip, with a deep notch for the reception of the upper tooth. Nostrils round, with a central point. Space between the eye and bill

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branch of a tree. It was constructed with great neatness, without mud or plaster; the outside composed of coarse rooty grass, intermixed with horsehair; and the lining of a fine green-coloured grass, perfectly dry and laid circularly. The eggs were four, of a pale greenish-blue, marked with specks and blotches of olive, particularly at the great end. The food of the Hermit Thrush consists chiefly of berries, that occur in a perpetual succession in the low southern swamps which it frequents. R

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analogies almost interminable, surpasses the utmost pitch of human ingenuity. Sw. DESCRIPTION Of a male, killed at Cumberland House, May 20. COLOUR. Head, neck, back, throat, and breast shining black, very slightly glossed with blue; wings and tail reddish-black. A band across the quills; the inner wing coverts, sides of the breast, and middles of the tail feathers, rich and vivid orpiment-orange, except the central pair of the latter, which are wholly black. The black on the breast descends and

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with yellowish-green. The under plumage delicately white, very slightly tinged with grey; the flanks, inner wing coverts, and under tail coverts pale primrose-yellow. Bill blackish-brown above, pale beneath. Legs blue-grey. FORM, c. Bill straight, lengthened, the tip abruptly bent and conspicuously notched. Lower mandible with the gongs ascending; the sides of both compressed, and the whole appearance resembling that of a Myothera, Ill. Nostrils roundish, basal: a few short, curved, and very

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inconvenienced by the bird of prey, which rears its young above them. DESCRIPTION Of a male, killed on the Saskatchewan, May 12, 1827. COLOUR. Head, neck, and breast, deep violet, with greenish and purplish-red metallic reflections. Back, belly, and scapulars bronze-coloured. Wings reflecting auricula-purple, with green and blue tints; the primaries reddish-black. Tail exhibiting various shades of imperial-, auricula-, and plum-purples, the central feathers slightly bronzed. The base of the plumage is

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saffron-yellow. Rump pure white; its sides and the tail coverts above and below banded with black and white. Tail pitch-black, obsoletely tipped and spotted on the edges with brownish-white. Sides of the head, chin, and under plumage, fawn-coloured*, fading to greyish-white towards the vent. Maxillary band, a gorget on the breast, and round spots over the whole ventral plumage, velvet black. Bill bluish-black. Irides brown. Legs greyish-blue. The female differs merely in wanting the maxillary band

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, 1827. COLOUR, pure white, except the spurious wing, primaries, and seven primary coverts, which are brownish-black: four or five of the secondaries are speckled with brown. Occiput and an angular patch beneath the eye clothed with blackish-blue feathers. Bill wax-yellow. Irides gamboge-yellow. Legs bluish-black. FORM. Bill strong, straight, tapering, slightly compressed, and very acute; edges of both mandibles crenated near the points. Top of the head nearly to the occiput, and the posterior

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to blue, the tips of the latter fading to white. The exterior web of the first primary a stripe on its inner web next the shaft, and the tips and inner margins of the others blackish-grey; this colour, glossed with shining ash-grey, on the remainder of the quills. All the quill-shafts, the rump, under eyelid, inferior plumage, and insides of the wings, white; the breast, belly, and flanks, slightly tinged with grey. Tail and its coverts pearl-grey; outer feather white exteriorly; dark-grey near

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lines. Wings hair-brown; the secondaries bluish-grey, narrowly tipped with white, and the two adjoining tertiaries edged with black: axillary feathers and under coverts pure white. Bill: upper mandible light blue; its tip, a narrow belt round its base, and the under mandible, black. Legs black. FORM. Bill rather longer than the head, but considerably shorter, in proportion, than that of the last; the upper lamin lying entirely within the edges of the mandible; epidermis, when dry, wrinkled near

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, whole dorsal plumage, tertiaries, greater coverts, breast, vent, and under tail coverts, greenish-black; lesser coverts, primaries, and tail, blackish-brown; secondaries pearl-grey, narrowly tipped with white. Belly white, from which a crescentic curve to the shoulder; flanks and posterior part of the belly finely undulated with blackish-brown. Bill black; rictus, line round the base, and belt near the tip of the upper mandible, light blue. Irides deep yellow. Legs blackish-brown. FORM. Bill

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back, rump, scapulars, and flanks, pure brownish-orange; sides of the head and the chin white. Wings unspotted hair-brown, the secondaries tipped with white. Base of the under plumage clove-brown, its tips shining white. Bill shining light blue. Legs brown. Female. Ground colour of the top of the head, and the parts which are reddish-orange in the male, blackish-brown; the crown tipped with chestnut, mottled with brown. Sides of the head brown, with an imperfect white patch. Neck clove-brown

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-blue. Flanks pure orange-brown. Vent brownish-black. Bill bluish-black. Legs blackish-brown. FORM. Bill rather narrower and longer than that of Harelda glacialis; margins of the upper mandible straight, not hooked at the tip; unguis large, broadly oval; a small flap of naked skin at the rictus. Wings an inch and a half shorter than the tapering, pointed tail, which is long, as in the rest of the Garrots. Tail coverts very short. Toes not longer than those of Cl. albeola, though this is a much

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[226.] 2. ANSER HYPERBOREUS. (Bonap.) Snow Goose. SUB-FAMILY, Anserin , SWAINS. Genus, Anser, AUCT. The Blue-winged Goose. EDWARDS, pl. 152. Young. Anas nivalis (Snow goose). FORSTEB, Phil. Trans., lxii., p. 413, No. 45. Snow goose. PENN. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 549, No. 477. Snow goose (Anas hyperborea). WILS., viii., p. 76, pl. 68, f. 3, male, and p. 89, pl. 69, f. 5, young. White Brant. LEWIS CLARK, iii., p. 58. Anas hyperborea. RICHARDS. Append. Parry's Second Voy., p. 365, No. 28. Anser

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Apisteeskeesh 470 Appish-meekeeshew 15 Apternus 301, 302, 311, 313 Aquatic accentor 229 Aquila albicilla 18 AQUILA CHRYSAETA 12 Aquila chrysa tu xxii, xxxix AQUILA (HALI^EETUS) LEUCOCEPHALA 15 Aquila (Hali itus) leucocephala, xxxix hali tus 20 AQUILA (PANDION) HALI ETA 20 Aquila (Pandion) hali ta, xxxvi, xxxix Arctic bird 430, 433 Arctic blue-bird 209 ground-finch 260 jager 430 owl 86 Arctic silvery gull 417 tern 414 Arctic three-toed woodpecker 313 Ardea 373, 374 Ardea (Botaurus) minor 374 Canadensis

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) MIGRATORIA 363 Columba (Ectop.) migratoria xxxvii migratoria xxi, xxviii, 363 palumbus 349 Columbid xxviii, xxxvii Colymbus 474, 475, 476 COLYMBUS ARCTICUS 475 Colymbus arcticus xxxii, xl COLYMBUS GLACIALIS 474 Colymbus glacialis xxxii, xxxvi, xxxviii, xl, 474, 475, 476 Colymbus podiceps 412 COLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS 476 Colymbus septentrionalis xxxii, xxxvi, xxxviii, xl, 476 Common brown fishing-eagle 20 coot 404 bittern 374 Common blue-bird 210 Common buzzard 47 Common buzzard 69 European godwit 395

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Falco uliginosus 55, 56, 57, 64, 67 variegatus 67 Falcon, bay 55 blue-backed 24 buzzard 66 chocolate 52, 66 coloured 52 collared 27 dubious 37, 66 dushy 27, 66 Falcou, gentil 39 Falcon, gentil 66 Iceland 27 Leverian 50, 66 little 31, 66 Falcon, little rusty-crowned 31 Falcon, marsh 66 Newfoundland 66 peregrine 66 pigeon 66 placentia 52 plain 47, 66 red-shouldered 66 red-tailed 50, 66 ring-tail 66 Falcon, rough-legged 52 Falcon, rough-legged 52, 66 Saint John's 66 sacre 27, 66 streaked 66

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flycatcher 216 thrush 227 Golden-crowned warbler 216 Golden-crowned warbler 216 Golden eagle 12 Golden eagle 15, 18, 66 Golden eye 437, 456, 457 Golden eye, common 456 Golden finch 266 Golden plover 369 Golden plover 367, 368, 369 Golden-shafted woodpecker 314 Golden-shafted woodpeckers 302 Golden-wing woodpecker 314, 315 Goldfinch 266 Goldfinch, American 266 Goldfinch, American 266 English 266 Goldfinches 269 Goosander 461 Goosander 461 red-breasted 462 Goose, Bering's xvi blue-winged 467 Goose

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Tanagers 153, 243, 269 Tanagra 288 esclave 154 rabra 274 Tanagrin 242, 260, 273 Tarrock 423 Tatlee riok 373 Tatler 206, 389 Tatler, Bartram's 391 green-rump 393 semipalmated 388 spotted 394 white-tailed 392 yellow-shanks 390 Tawny banting 246 thrush 182 Tawquawgewsheep 453 Teal 436 Teal, American 443 Teal, American 443 Teal, blue-wigged 444 Teal, green-winged 443 white-faced 444 Telleegoo-aieu 371 Tell-tale 389 Tell-tale godwit 389 greater and lesser 389 lesser 390 snipe 389 TELOPHORUS 481 Telophorus

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legged godwit 390 poll warbler 211 red-poll 215 Yellow red-poll warbler 215 Yellow red-poll warbler 215 rumped flycatcher 213 Yellow-rump warbler 213 Yellow-rump warbler 213, 216 Yellow-shanks, greater and lesser 389 snipe 390 Yellow-shanks tatler 390 tailed gnatcatcher 223 Yellow-tailed flycutcher 223 warbler 223 warbler, blue-eyed 211 Yunxin 299 Z. Zapornia 403 ZONOTRICHIA 493 Zonotrichia 243, 252, 254, 255, 256, 257 leucophrys 493 melodia 493 Pennsylvanica 493 Zosterops 204, 205, 222, 489 Javanica

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describer. In the R gne Animal the body is said to be spotted with white, and the fins to be red. Sir Robert Sibbald calls the spots golden. Dr. Mortimer states the back to be dark blue or violet, and, as well as the bright green sides, to be dotted all over with oblong white spots; the jaws pale red; the nose, gills, and belly silvery; and all the fins bright scarlet. One caught in Torbay is described by Pennant's correspondent as being in general of a vivid transparent scarlet, varnished over with

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of each scale is roundish, and its convex centre, having a greyish hue and silvery lustre, is surrounded by a dark border of minute dots which are deficient or less numerous on the yellowish-grey spots, and also on the bluish-white belly. The dorsal and caudal fins have the greenish-grey tint of the back, and the ventrals and anal are muddy-orange, this colour also partially tinging the pectorals. The irides are bright honey-yellow with blue clouds. The teeth, gums, and roof of the mouth have

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. A faint carinate line divides the top of the head in the dried specimen. Lateral line straight and near the middle; nostrils double, close to the end of the snout and articulation of the maxillaries; scales round, approximated, easily falling off; the base of the tail is covered with them. Colour ash-blue at the back, paler and silvery on the rest of the body, with yellow tints on the tail, head and dorsal; iris whitish, pupil black. Length ten to twelve inches. FINS. Br. 9; P. 16; D. 12 0; V

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tumid in the centre, narrowed to a point at both extremities: upper parts varied with grey and olive, sometimes of a slate-blue: lower parts white: dorsal and anal fins reddish, which colour deepens as it approaches the tail; pectoral fins small, acute, and bluish. Length from eighteen to twenty-four inches. There is little doubt of the North American coasts being frequented by some of the numerous species of mur na (Thunb.). Mur na moringa of Cuvier is figured in Catesby, pl. 21, from a Bahama

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.] 2. CYPRINUS (ABRAMIS) BALTEATUS. (Rich.) Red-sided Bream. This pretty little bream, which is an inhabitant of the Columbia, was sent to me by Dr. Gairdner. DESCRIPTION. COLOUR. Back of head and body mountain-green, with iridescent tints of yellow and blue. Belly silvery-white. A bright gold-yellow band behind the eye on the margin of the preoperculum, and a broad scarlet-red stripe beneath the lateral line, extending from the gill-opening to the anal. Fins of an uniform greenish-grey colour

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Lucioperca Volgensis 11 Lump, The 260 Lump Bellying 263 Lump, Common 260 Lump Diminutive 262 Lump, Spiny 263 Lump-fish, Blue 260 Lump-fish, Common 95 Lumpen, The 90 Lumps, The 260 Lumpus 260 Lupi 9 Lupus 9, 10 Lutjanus 107 Luvarus 79 Mackerel, Bull-eyed 80 Mackerel, chub 80 Mackerel, Common 80 Mackerel, Spring 80 Mackerel, Thimble-eyed 80 Macropodus 75 Macrourus 254 MACROURUS RUPESTRIS 254 M na 72 M n 72 M NOIDE 72 M noide 83 Maigre 61 Maigres 64, 69 Mailed cheeks, The 36 Mailed fish, The 237

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this coast, are coarse blue checked India cloths, English white coarse cottons, glass ware and cutlery of inferior quality, ready made woollen coats, and shoes. Benguela Bay; Geo. Site. BENGUELA BAY, in lat. 12 32 S. lon. 13 29 E. or 19 5 East of James's Town, St. Helena, by Capt. Heywood's chronometers, in H. M. ship Nereus, is called also the Bay of St. Antonio St. Philip of Benguela, being the chief Portuguese settlement on this coast. The Nereus, on the 29th Jan. 1811, anchored in 10 fathoms

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the Bay. See View B, in the Plan. A Rocky Patch of 3 fathoms, has been discovered nearly in the middle of the western channel, and when the Island was in possession of the British in 1810, there was a blue buoy placed on it. The peak just open to the west of the large house, leads a ship between the Rocky Patch, and the western extremity of the Middle Ground. These fish which are noxious, probably feed on the vegetating poisonous coral at the edges of the reefs. Abbe Rochon states, that several

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soundings 26 fathoms; at 6 P. M., increasing to 30 and 32 fathoms sand and shells, about midnight, and from 36 to 24 fathoms, till 5 A. M., frequently blue mud, at which time she hove to, until day-light. From 6 A. M. steered N. E. by N. 14 miles, when at 8 a rock was seen bearing N. 5 or 6 miles, the depths were at this time 10, 13, and 18 fathoms, brown sand. From this time she steered till noon, N. E. 7 miles, and N. E. by N. 21 miles, in 18 and 20 fathoms, having passed to the eastward of the

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North coast of Ceylon steep to. points, which bear about E. S. and W. N. from each other near 3 miles, Point Pedro being the northernmost part of the island; from hence, the coast extends to the N. W. point of the island W. S. 15 or 16 miles. This north coast of Ceylon is steep to, all along, with 6 or 7 fathoms close to the shore, between which and the banks, there is a fine channel from 3 or 4, to 9 miles wide, with regular soundings from 7 or 8, to 5 fathoms over a bottom of blue mud. To

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suddenly on the N. Eastern edge of the reef, over a sandy bottom; she ought in such case, to edge out immediately into 15 or 16 fathoms, the bottom then, in the fair track, will soon change to stiff blue clay, mixed with sand and stones, or at times with shells; and this is, in general, the quality of the ground to the northward of Point Palmiras, in the Bay of Ballasore. A lighthouse on Point Palmiras. The lighthouse lately erected on Point Palmiras, will be of great utility, in clear weather, to

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Island is coming into contact with the east end of the hill on Negrais Island, Sunken Island is then in the same direction bearing N. N. E., and the western extreme of Cape Negrais will bear nearly North. At 4 or 5 miles distance from Sunken Island, both to the eastward and westward, the depths are generally from 15 to 17 or 18 fathoms blue mud, and to the southward of it, at the same distance, 19 and 20 fathoms. It is prudent not to approach Sunken Island nearer than 2 leagues on the East side, nor

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in possession of the Dutch,* from which gold-dust, benzoin, and other articles are exported, in exchange for opium, blue and white cloth, and other piece-goods. In approaching it from the offing, the head will easily be known by its bluff aspect, and the coast from it southward, being all bold high land; whereas, the land near the sea to the northward of the river is low, and all the coast is low from thence to Priaman, but far in the country the land is generally high. Anchorage. A ship

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extend 4 leagues to the N.W. and N. N. Westward; a reef also lines the North and East sides to 1/3 of a mile distance, with 3 fathoms close to it, from whence the depths increase gradually to the N. E. and Eastward, but there are 6 or 7 fathoms within of a mile of its S. Western side. January 4th, 1813, the Discovery anchored in 6 fathoms blue mud, with the island bearing S.W. S., distant 1 mile, and Capt. Ross, landed in the boat, on a sandy beach, on the East side, a little way to the

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shore, but you will not get moderate depths until within 3 or 4 miles of Cocoanut Point, and you may. round it in 12 to 18 fathoms, at 1 to 2 miles distance, then haul up N. N.W. and N. by W. for Rajah Bassa Road, and anchor with the peak E. N. E. or E. N. E. N., in from 12 to 14 fathoms blue mud, off shore 1 or 2 miles. After getting 4 miles to the northward of Hog Point, a ship in working, may safely stand in to 12, and off shore to 20 fathoms. The boats proceeding to Rajah Bassa for water

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conspicuous by the deep blue water outside, and white discoloured water within, where the ship touched the rocks in hauling off the reef, although drawing only 19 feet water. She took a considerable careen by the fresh wind and strong tide, and grazed over the rocks into 12 fathoms the first cast, Pedro Branco bearing then S. S. E. E. about 4 miles, southern island off Point Romania W. S.W. S., South point of the largest island W. by S. S., and its southernmost hump in one with the South Cape or

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South side at a moderate distance, on account of the ledge of rocks off it, having 17 fathoms water close to. From Pulo Panjang, in the track steering toward Pulo Oby, the water shoals from 25 to 19 and 18 fathoms near the latter; and on the N.W. side of this island, it shoals quickly from 15 to 5 fathoms, soft blue mud, mixed with gravel. Geo. Site of Pulo Oby Watering place. PULO OBY, in lat. 8 25 N., lon. 104 54 E. by chronometers, distant about 5 leagues nearly South, from the S.W. point of

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, About 6 leagues northward of the entrance of Hue River, lies Tiger Island, in about lat. 16 55 N., which is high and small. There are regular soundings along this part of the coast, the bottom mostly blue mud, or mud and sand; about 6 or 7 leagues to the N.W. of Tiger Island, the soundings are 30 to 34 fathoms; and they reach from thence, across the entrance of the gulf, to the West part of Hainan. Tonking Gulf; TONKING, or TUNG-QUIN GULF, is bounded at the entrance, by the S.W. end of Hainan

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fathoms blue clay; but the western channel is the most convenient with a working wind, being nearly a league wide, with soundings of 18 and 20 fathoms from the West Brother, until close to the S.W., point of the bay: inside, the depths are from 15 to 11 fathoms, good anchoring ground. A little way outside of the Brothers, the depths increase to 35 and 40 fathoms. Ships wintering in this bay during the N. E. monsoon, moor in 7 or 8 fathoms dark sand and mud, at the N. E. part, with the village Galong

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HARBOUR, in lat. 26 10 N., lon. 119 57 E. is a safe anchorage, where the Canton was piloted into by a fisherman, August 7th, 1797; she anchored in 7 fathoms blue mud, opposite to the town, entirely surrounded by land. Here, she procured 40 butts of water, and a few bullocks; sailed August 18th, for Macao, and arrived there September 7th. After weighing from Ting-hoy Harbour, she steered between E. S. E. and South in passing out amongst the islands which front the bay and harbour, the soundings

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, the Mangsee Isles will soon appear bearing about E. N. E.; keep rather nearer to Banguey, than to the reef that extends from these islands to the westward about 3 leagues, which is very conspicuous by its light green colour, contrasting the dark blue deep water around. The soundings through, are irregular, from 7, to 14 and 17 fathoms, over a corally bottom; and if the Banguey shore is approached within 3 or 4 miles, the water may probably shoal to 6 fathoms, or less. When the Mangsee Isles

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depths are from 23 to 26 fathoms, and 4 miles N. N. E. from it there are 30 fathoms blue mud. The Volunteer, in October, 1812, had 22 fathoms mud, with the shoal bearing from South to S. W. by W., distant 1 mile from the nearest part; a large proa was lying here (probably fishing), the crew of which had built a hut on the shoal. Between this outer shoal and Pulo Rackit, lies the Middle Patch, or Shoal, with soundings of 23 and 24 fathoms around, and between it and them. Upon this Middle Patch, the

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should probably be given to this place; it being situated in a bay, with regular soundings toward the shore, the anchorage ought to be more sheltered than Bally Road. Capt. Ashmore, in 1805, anchored at Peejow in the Act on, in 10 fathoms black sand, and afterward moved farther out into 16, fathoms blue clay, with the river's mouth bearing N.W. by W. W., the town N.W. N., Peak of Lombock N. N.W., off shore 2 miles. After crossing over the bar of the river, it opens into a basin, in which were