2 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR. 



The Audubon Society will mail you an autographed, first edition copy 

 of Dr. Charles Wendell Townsend's new book, "In Audubon's Labrador," 

 if you will fill out the enclosed slip and mail it with the price of the 

 book, S2.50. There are only a limited number of these copies and they 

 are offered in this way to Audubon Society members through the generos- 

 ity of the author and the publishers. The margin of profit on the trans- 

 action goes to the Audubon Society to help on the work of bird protection. 



Dr. Townsend, eminent as an ornithologist as well as a physician, is 

 well known for several other books on Labrador as well as for his classic 

 "Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes," an intimate study of the Ipswich region. 

 Like these other books the present volume is written for the general reader 

 rather than the specialist. Virile and containing much valuable informa- 

 tion, it has the charm of a lucid style and is replete with human interest. 

 In 1833 Audubon made his famous expedition to Labrador in order 

 to study northern birds, especially sea-birds, for his great work "The 

 Birds of America." Dr. Townsend, in 1915, carefully followed in a 

 small schooner on the track of the great naturalist. He used Audubon's 

 Labrador Journal as a guide and was greatly helped in his work by a 

 pilot who knew the coast intimately and was able to take the author to 

 the homes of the descendants of the same people that Audubon visited. 



In the first chapter Dr. Townsend gives a brief account of Audubon's 

 expedition with portraits of the five young men who accompanied Audu- 

 bon, including that of Tom Lincoln, after whom the Lincoln's Sparrow 

 was named. In the succeeding chapters he recounts the incidents of his 

 own voyage and gives not only many interesting studies of the bird pop- 

 ulation but also of the human, both white and Indian. In conclusion 

 he has a valuable chapter on conservation in Labrador, one especially on 

 the eider, and an appendix containing letters from George C. Shattuck, 

 who accompanied Audubon, and also letters from Audubon himself. The 

 book is thoroughly illustrated. 



BIRDS ON THE CHARLES. 



As we look out the window a beautiful flicker is seen examining a 

 No. 3 Berlepsch box. Along come three more flickers and there is a 

 noisy discussion over something. As the flickers rush away a young 

 screech owl glances out of a No. 4 box, sees me in the window and grace- 

 fully climbs back in the box, showing an aloofness which the parents do 

 not have. 



Then a couple of male purple finches pick up seeds from the ridge 

 that is thirty-five feet high; and below, on the side of the over-flowing 

 Charles, a big blue heron. 



Some action. 



