VIII Bird-Life in Labrador. 



of the region- I now propose to briefly examine critically the claims of 

 species from other knowa sources than my own, to a place in the avi-fauna 

 of Labrador. Having studied diligently all the sources of information that 

 could be obtained, I have come to the decision, carefully weighed, that Au- 

 dubon Is both father and son in the history of Labrador birds. That is, he 

 gave as our first real knowledge of the birds of this region, and few facts 

 new to science have been added, or old facts corrected, since his time. Even 

 my own sketches are, in the main, mere reproductions of what he had so 

 graphically previously given to the world; they could not well be otherwise. 

 This does not necessarily lay me open to the charge of plagiarism, any more 

 than it might some other man who wrote oPthe birds of a region ot which 

 somebody else had written before him : for nothing is farther from my 

 thoughts than to try to steal another man's literary labors. 

 Amherst, M.a.ss., May, 1886. 



