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upright and approching a flock would hardly get within rifle 

 range, no matter how slowly or carefully he proceeded. To 

 play the dog game, drop on all fours and go forward on hands 

 and knees. They say that it is not the part of a good hunter 

 or flsherman to give the ''points of the craft" away; but 

 surely there is very little chance that the writer and the reader 

 of these sketches will ever " collide," especially upon the 

 same hunting ground. The birds that we found were all in 

 the gray jdumage ; I recollect, I believe, a single specimen, 

 in the collection of one of the natives, showing the black 

 most beautifully. 



GOLDEN PLOVER 



Ciiaradrliix (loiiiiniriis. — Mi'LL. 



I LEARN Ki) nothing regarding the habits of the golden plover 

 in Labrador, merely seeing an occasional stuffed specimen; 

 but from inipiiry they appeared to visit the coast occasionally 

 in small flocks or even in less numbers. They are probably 

 not really rare, and more or less regular as migrants. 



SEMIPALMATED PLOVER RING NECK 



^T^(/iaHf('s sciiiijKilnnttiis. — ( 1)1'.) ( \\\\. 



}\\\ principal record of tlic semipalninted ring neck I'cads : 

 Sei)teml)cr 20, on Green Island. I saw several small flocks 

 of this l)ird but they were associated with flocks of ereiinetes 

 and I thought I distinguished ([uite positively both birds 

 feeding and flying in the same flocks together ; they vvere at 

 least so near that I was al)le to separate the species when 

 thev flew. The ring neck is one of the characteristic birds 

 of Labrador, and breeds al)undantly all up and down the 

 coast. The nest is usually composed of a few dry grasses 

 scraped together in the open field and in the most exposed 

 situations. The eo:o:s are four. The bird's artifice draw the 

 intruder awav from her nest or even her young was truly a 



