. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 372 liONo-KARED Owl. Strixotus. ¥. B. A. 2. p. 7'<. The specimen, tbough in complete plumage, is very small, measuring only 14^ inches from the point of the beak to the tip of the tail. The latter member is as long as that of an ordinary individual, whose total length is IT inches. Little Tyrant Fly Catcher. 2. p. Tyrannula pusilla. 144. F. B. A. A bird of this spec
. Narrative of the Arctic land expedition to the mouth of the Great Fish River and along the shores of the Arctic Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. 372 liONo-KARED Owl. Strixotus. ¥. B. A. 2. p. 7'<. The specimen, tbough in complete plumage, is very small, measuring only 14^ inches from the point of the beak to the tip of the tail. The latter member is as long as that of an ordinary individual, whose total length is IT inches. Little Tyrant Fly Catcher. 2. p. Tyrannula pusilla. 144. F. B. A. A bird of this species, obtained on Sir John Franklin's second expedition, at Carlton House, is fi'^ured in the Fauna Boreali- Americana (t. 46. f. I.); and Mr. Swainson who had obtained a specimen also from Mexico, points out in that work its differences from the Musicapa querula of Wilson, or M. acadica of, Gmelin and Bonaparte, which it very nearly resembles, the plumage of both being precisely similar. T. pusilla has a shorter bill, and shorter wings than querula, and there is a difference in the com- parative length of their quill feathers. In the latter, the first quill IS equal to the fifth, (or to the fourth, according to Audubon), and the second and third are longest in pusilla: tne first is rather shorter than the sixth, and the fourth is visibly longer than the second, though the third or longest, very little exceeds either of them. The specimen brought home by Mr. King differs from the iferred to above, solely in being about a quarter of an inch one rei longer from the point of the bill to tue end of the tailj but the proportions of the otlier parts are the same. The Arctic Blce-dird. Sialia arctica. t. 39. F. B. a. 2. p. 209. slj ' i:*^' '-ii, A single bird of this species was killed by Mr. Dease at Great Bear Lake, on Sir John Franklin's second expedition. Since then, the same gentleman has sent me four specimens from New Caledonia, where it is pietty common, and is known to the n
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