. Appendix to Captain Parry's journal of a second voyage [microform] : for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla in the years 1821-22-23. Science; Botany; Sciences; Botanique. BY DR. RICHARDSON. 329 instinct which leads them to resort, at certain seasons, to districts where alone food of the proper quality is to be obtained. In the winter time they feed on the usnea, alectoriw, and other lichens which cover the lower branches of the trees in the dark forests of larch and spruce fir. About the end of April, when t
. Appendix to Captain Parry's journal of a second voyage [microform] : for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, performed in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla in the years 1821-22-23. Science; Botany; Sciences; Botanique. BY DR. RICHARDSON. 329 instinct which leads them to resort, at certain seasons, to districts where alone food of the proper quality is to be obtained. In the winter time they feed on the usnea, alectoriw, and other lichens which cover the lower branches of the trees in the dark forests of larch and spruce fir. About the end of April, when the partial melting of the snow has softened the cetrariee, corniculariw, and cenona/ces, which clothe the barren-grounds* Uke a carpet, they are found ultimately resorting to these their most nutritious food, and returning to the woods according to the state of the weather. In June, when the increasing power of the sun has dried up :he lichens, and rendered them quite hard and friable, the deer resort to the moist pastures which lie between the rocky ridges on the coasts and islands of the Arctic Sea, where they graze not only on the sprouting carices, but also on the hay and withered culms of the preceding year. Their spring journey is performed partly in the snow, partly after the snow has disappeared, on the ice of the rivers and lakes which have in general a northerly direction; and their return takes place after the snow has begun to fall, but whilst the heat remaining in the earth is still sufficient to keep the lichens in a compara- tively soft state under their snowy covering. The food thus preserved for them brings them into a good condition for the rutting season, which takes place in October, when they arrive on the verge of the woods. The pregnant does precede the males a month or six weeks in the spring migrations, and bring forth their young on the sea-coast, in May and June. It is probable that they go farther northwards than the bulk of the males, and as they tr
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