...shot subsequently by the outlying parties near Cape Joseph Henry. In the middle of May snow-buntings and knots arrived. A number of the young of the latter...small flocks of about a dozen, flying towards the north-west, but owing to a heavy fall of snow, lasting three days, which covered the land more completely...

...seals, but no traces of the walrus were seen. In the middle of May snow-buntings and knots arrived. Early in June ducks and geese passed in small flocks of about a dozen, flying toward the northwest. Two dozen small trout were caught during the summer and autumn in small lakes...

...Arctic Expedition, did not allude to the subject — although he mentioned that early in June, 1876, ducks and geese passed in small flocks of about a dozen, flying towards the NW from the winter quarters of the ' Alert,' in 82° 24' N. lat. ; and it must be recollected that these...