TOWNSEND AND ALLEN: LABRADOR BIRDS. 293 
M. Abbott Frazar spent the summer of 1884 0n the southern Labra- 
dor coast, arriving at Esquimaux Point on May 15th. From here he 
went to Wolf Bay near Cape Whittle, reaching this place June 10th. 
He devoted himself to the collection and study of the sea birds and 
their eggs. He returned to Esquimaux Point the first week in Septem- 
ber and left there for home a week later. 
Dr. Robert Bell in the summer of 1884, in the course of the Canadian 
geological survey, skirted the coast of Labrador from the Straits of 
Belle Isle to Cape Chidley. The expedition entered Hudson Bay 
and proceeded as far as York Factory, returning by the same route. 
He gives a nominal list of the birds observed. 
William Palmer and Frederic A. Lucas, in July and August, 1887, 
visited the southern coast of Labrador between Black Bay and Min- 
gan Islands in the United States fish commission schooner Grampus. 
In the summer of 1891, between July 13th and September 7th, an 
expedition organized by Bowdoin college explored the coast from 
Red Bay to Hopedale. Two of the party pushed up Hamilton Inlet 
about 300 miles. The expedition brought back ninety-five specimens 
representing thirty-two species. These were studied and the results 
published in a paper by Arthur H. Norton, in May, 1901. 
Between 1892 and 1895, the interior of Labrador was explored by 
the Canadian geological survey under the leadership of A. P. Low 
and the birds were studied and reported on. 
In 1892 and in 1897, J. D. Sornborger spent some months at Na- 
chvak. He has not yet published the results of his studies there. 
In the summer of 1900, July 13th to September 26th, Henry B. 
Bigelow accompanied the Brown-Harvard expedition which studied 
the Labrador coast from Belle Isle to Nachvak.. He spent a month 
from August 13th to September 11th at Port Manvers. 
The latest published ornithological report referring to Labrador 
is by the Rev. C. W. G. Eifrig entitled: ‘Ornithological results of 
the Canadian ‘Neptune’ expedition to Hudson Bay and northward, 
1903-1904.” This report is based on specimens and notes furnished 
by A. P. Low and A. Halkelt of the expedition. Still more recently 
the Rev. Mr. Eifrig has published a few more notes on the same subject 
and Low’s report on the Neptune expedition has just appeared 
(Low, 706). 
