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SMITH SUN IAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 60 



Some little time was spent near Hopedale, ten days on the way 

 down and a week on the return trip. A trip was also made inland for a 

 distance of thirty-five miles, and some of the outer islands were 

 visited. 



The sea birds on the Labrador coast have been sadly reduced in 

 numbers by many years of constant persecution and persistent egging. 

 The Alcidae have nearly all disappeared, except the black guillemot. 



Fig. 53. — Nests of Northern Eider, Labrador. Photograph by Bent. 



which lays its eggs in inaccessible crevices in the rocks. Eiders are 

 still locally common, hut are rapidly disappearing; only one large 

 breeding colony was found. Scoters are still abundant in large 

 flocks about the heads of the bays. 



Glaucous gulls still breed on the high rocky cliffs where their nests 

 are inaccessible. Great black-backed gulls and herring gulls are 

 still fairly common. Land birds are nowhere abundant, with the 

 possible exception of the white-crowned sparrow, which is a common 

 dooryard bird everywhere. Horned larks, pipits, juncos, Labrador 

 jays, tree sparrows, and redpolls are fairly common. 



