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ashore for exercise. The fact is that I am growing old too 

 fast; alas! I feel it — and yet work I will, and may God 

 grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work 

 finished. I have heard the Brown Lark {AntJiiis spiiiolctta) 

 sing many a time this day, both on the wing and whilst 

 sitting on the ground. When on the wing it sings while 

 flying very irregularly in zigzags, up and down, etc. ; when 

 on a rock (which it prefers) it stands erect, and sings, I 

 think, more clearly. John found the nest of a White- 

 crowned Bunting with five eggs ; he was creeping through 

 some low bushes after a Red-necked Diver, and accident- 

 ally coming upon it, startled the female, which made much 

 noise and complaint. The nest was like the one Lincoln 

 found placed in the moss, under a low bough, and formed 

 of beautiful moss outwardly, dried, fine grass next inside, 

 and exquisitely lined with fibrous roots of a rich yellow 

 color; the eggs are light greenish, slightly sprinkled with 

 reddish-brown, in size about the same as eggs of the Song 

 Sparrow. This Fringilla'^ is the most abundant in this 

 part of Labrador. We have seen two Swamp Sparrows 

 only. We have found two nests of the Peregrine Falcon, 

 placed high on rocky declivities. Coolidge and party 

 shot two Oyster Catchers ; these are becoming plentiful. 

 Lieutenant Bowen of the " Gulnare " brought me a Pere- 

 grine Falcon, and two young of the Alca torda, the first 

 hatched we have seen, and only two or three days old. 



July 7. Drawing all day; finished the female Grouse 

 and five young, and prepared the male bird. The captain, 

 John, and Lincoln, went off" this afternoon with a view to 

 camp on a bay about ten miles distant. Soon after, we had 

 a change of weather, and, for a wonder, bright lightning 

 and something like summer clouds. When fatigued with 

 drawing I went on shore for exercise, and saw many pretty 

 flowers, amongst them a flowering Sea-pea, quite rich in 



1 The White-crowned and White-throated Sparrows are now placed in 

 the genus Zonotrichia. — E. C. 



