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580 PHIPPS’S JOURNALe
Cauda zqualis, pedibus longior.
Longitudo totius avis, ab apice roftriad finem caudz - Uncias 16
Longitudo inter apices alarum expanfarum - 37
Roftri - - 2
Sterna Hirundo. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 227. 2.
The greater Tern. Penn. Brit. Zool. p. 428.
Found on the coaft of Spitfbergen.
Emberiza nivalis. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 308. 1.
The greater Brambling. Penn. Brit. Zool. 321.
Found not only on the land of Spitfbergen, but alfo upon the ice adjacent to it, in
large flocks: what its food can be is difficult to determine; to all appearance it is a
granivorous bird, and the only one of that kind found in thefe climates, but how that
one can procure food in a country which produces fo few vegetables, is not eafy to
guefs.
AmpuHiBiA.—Cyclopterus liparis. Lina. Sy. Nat. 414. 3-
Sea Snail. Penn. Brit. Zool. Ill. p. 105.
Two only of thefe were taken in a trawl near Seven Ifland Bay.
Pisces.—Gadus Carbonarius. Linn. Sy. Nat. 438. 9.
The Coal Fith. Penn. Brit. Zool. Ul. p. 152.
Though we trawled feveral times on the north fide of Spitfbergen, and the feamen fre-
quently tried their hooks and lines, yet nothing was taken except a few individuals of
this and the foregoing fpecies.
InsecTa.—Cancer Squilla. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 1051. 66.
The Prawn. Merr. Pinn. 192.
Found in the ftomach of a feal, caught near the coaft of Spitfbergen.
Cancer Boreas, macrourus, thorace carinato aculeato, manibus lzvibus, pollice fub-
ulato incurvo.
This finglar fpecies of crab, which has not before been defcribed, was found with
the former in the ftomach of a feal; its place in the Syf{tema Nature feems to be next
after Cancer Norwegicus.
Defcription.— Thorax ovatus, tricarinatus: carinz laterales tuberculofe, antice
{pina acuta terminatz ; carina dorfalis {pinis tribus vel quatuor validis armata ; antice
produéta in roftrum porrectum, acutum, breve, thorace quintuplo brevius ; preter
{pinas carinarum, anguli laterales thoracis antice in {pifas terminantur.
Antennz duze, thorace fere triplo breviores, bifida : ramulus fuperior craffiufculus,
filiformis, obtufus ; inferior gracilis, fubulatus.
Palpi duo, duplicati ; ramus fuperior foliatus, feu explanatus in laminam ovalem,
obtufam, longitudine antennarum, intus et antice villis ciliatam ; ramus interior an-
tenniformis, {ubulatus, multiarticulatus, antennis.triplo longior.
Paraftatides decem, anteriores parvi; poftremi magni, pediformes articulo ultimo
explanato in laminam ovali-oblongam.
Pedes decem, duo primores cheliferi, carpis incraffatis, reliqui fimplices ;. pares fe-
cundi at tertii filiformes, graciles ; quarti et quinti craffiufculi.
Cauda thorace longior, fexarticulata ; articulis quinque anterioribus carinatis, carinis
fpina antrorfum vergente armatis; articulus fextus fupra bicarinatus, muticus, ter-
minatus foliolis quinque, articulis caude longioribus.; intermedio lanceolato, acuto,
porrecto, craflo, fupra planiufculo, quadricarinato carinis interioribus obfoletis, fub-
‘tus concavo 5 lateralibus ovali-oblongis, obtufis.
Neutteri
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