^0 Bird-Life in Labrador. 



what to say, I found it in April and in October on botfi is- 

 land and mainland ; very rare on the former, occasional oiv 

 the latter. Now, while it is thus found in its mit>;rations J, 

 did not see it in Summer, though I had ample opportunities 

 and searched carefully in localities where it would seem al- 

 most certain to reside. They must indeed have " kept entire- 

 ly in the thick woods/' and been " rather timid " to have thus 

 eluded me, yet Dr. Elliott Coues, who visited the coast in the 

 Summer of 1890, foantl them thus and added that "it is not 

 so abundant as might be expected in Labrador, one of itS' 

 breeding regions. From the fact that I was not in a suitable 

 locality, I did not observe it until the latter part of July, at 

 which time it was in small companies, the old and the young' 

 associating together." 



TREE SPARROW 



S})izeUa monticola. — ((tM.) Bd. 



Ha/) 1 been considering this and the foregoing specie.?- 

 faunally speaking, I should have said of the former, not a 

 resident but migrant; of this, resident, except during Winter,, 

 and breeds. I can find no record of this little fellow as a 

 breeder here, though it must pass the Summer in this its 

 usual limits. I saw numbers of them inland October 12, but 

 a week or so later not one of them was to be seen anywhere : 

 they must have migrated in a mass. They were very tame, 

 and played in and about the alder shrubbery much as they do 

 in the States.^ I did not see the two s|>ecies in company, and 

 do not know whether they associate together here as they do 

 at home. 



WHITE THROATED SPARROW 

 PEABODY BIRD 



Zonofrichia albicollis. - — (Gm.) Bp. 



Everywhere I went in Labrador I was greeted with the 

 shrill, sprightly, and cheering little tee-dee-dee j^ea-bodi/ jjea- 



