June 1891.] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



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oaipets and hangings to be given a thorough 

 heating and sweeping. Clotliing may be 

 phiced in the disinfecting box and tlien 

 packed in tiglit chests, witli plenty of ciyst- 

 alha. Camphor is not of tlie least use as a 

 preventive, as its only value i.s in disguising 

 the animal odor, and when the in.sect has 

 found the article it goes on with its work re- 

 gardless of the gum. Neither pin your faith 

 to any mixture or substitute whose principal 

 claims are a more pleasing odor, which is gen- 

 erally i)roduced by adulteration, or a less 

 price, both being secured at the ex- 

 pense of efficacy. The odor will be entirely 

 eradicated by hanging the clothing out of 

 doors f(u- a few hours, and none of the dirty, 

 suffocating after-odor of caui|ilior is left. 



Frank A. Bates. 



Five Months in Newfoundland. 



XOTKS FKOM THE DIAliV OF UO-MKI! I.. 

 BIGEI.OW. 

 (Continued.) 



On Monday I walked u\> tlie river and found 

 it full of falls ami rapids, with very wild 

 scenery; in one place was obliged to walk on a 

 narrow ledge, with a deep pool on one side and 

 the falls on the other, where a misstep windd 

 have i)roved fatal. 



The next week proved anything Imt |)rotit- 

 able to me, for I was laid up with the lioils on 

 my arm again. This is tenible, lying around 

 camp, unable to do anything and seeing the 

 days go by without anything accomplished. I 

 liope to get some work done sometime. 



On the 30th, the Terns, which have been 

 congregating in large flocks, seem to have 

 nearly all disappeared. The Herring (Julls 

 have been staying in the Arm for the past 

 week, and feeding on the squid. Tjoons are 

 there all the time but very shy. 



Other birds seen this week are Canada Jays; 

 Common and Hudsonian Chickadees; Red- 

 bellied Xuthatch; Fox .Sj)arrow; Downy, Hairy 

 and Three-toed Woodpeckers; Black-throated 

 (Jreen, Yellow-rump, Black and White, and 

 Yellow Warblers; Golden-crowned Thrush; 

 Water Thrush; Ellis' Thrush; Canadian Fly- 

 catcher; Greater Yellow-legs; Koliin; liaven; 

 Golden-eye Duck and Great^horned Owl. 



On September 1st we prepared to break 

 camp, and to pack our skins and get them 

 down to Burnt Island. We took one load 

 down to-day, and nearly got swamped coming 



back, for the wind blew a gale, and the tide 

 was running fearfully. We snapped the blade 

 off one oar, but got into camp all right, 

 thoroughly chilled through, for it was bitterly 

 cold. 



Provisions are nearly all gone, so we must 

 get out of here to-morrow. The birds are 

 nearly all g(jue, and there is little left here now 

 for us. Saw Sharp-shinned Hawk, Scoter, 

 Red-throated Diver and a few small birds. 



On the 3d it blew a living gale, and we did 

 not dare to get away, but on Thursday we went 

 down to Hall's Jlill to make the last arrange- 

 ments and get a new oar. As we had only one 

 pair of oars but one of us could pull at a time, 

 and I was taking my turn when a squall 

 swooped down upon us, and I thought that we 

 were surely done for. The rain poured in tor- 

 rents, and the water was thrown into spray as 

 soon as a wave rose. A schooner near by low- 

 ered all her sails, Init when the squall struck 

 her she reeled as from the blow of a giant 

 hand. It was sublime, but it was fearful, to 

 pull away for dear life, without gaining a foot. 

 At last it l)lew over and we landed .safely, but 

 I do not want another such experience. 



After we arrived at Gills, and I was standing 

 on the wharf, I thought I heard the cry of a 

 Klue .Jay, and we started after him. I cauglU 

 one glimpse of him through the bushes but 



could not get a shot. Wr. C does not 



think that it was a Blue .lay. but 1 am positive 

 of it. 



When we got back to the camp and had our 

 supper we took down the tent, packed the 

 remainder of our goods in the dory, and, at 

 midnight, bade good-bye to Loon Camp. 



For once the tide was with us, the moon was 

 shining Inightly, and the air was very calm; it 

 was a perfect night, a pleasant ending of a 

 rather discouraging expedition. 



We laid up at the Fish House, where our 

 other goods were stored, at 2 a.m., having 

 .sailed an<l rowed about twenty-five miles that 

 day. 



The next morning .Mr. Calioon turned me out 

 at (i o'clock (I wonder when that man ever 

 sleeps, he is on the go all of the time), and 

 after a breakfast of flounders and potatoes we 

 packed the dory. 



I heard some Yellow-legs, and had been 

 searching for them along the beach when a 

 sharp noise behind caused me to turn, and I 

 saw a bird directly in a line with the sun. I 

 dropped him and found that I had a female 

 Pigeon Hawk. Her stomach contained only a 

 few feathers and the toe of a small bird. 



