Jiinl- Life III Labrador. 



ahsdhliis. duclv liMwk. osprcv ( "on Northwest Ki\er" ), iioshawk, roiiiii'.- 

 leLTiied hawk ( " liiilit and dark" ), uohlen ea^'le ( " breeds '' I, rufl'ed j;roUM-. 

 •ireater and lesser yeUow-lejis, red and northern phiihiropc, Niriiinia rail 

 ( "one, Hamilton Jiilet" ), coot ( "one, Nain " ), whistling: swan O (■(i/iiiii 

 liiiiiKt { " occasional " ), greater snow goose ( " occasional " ), green-winged 

 teal, Barrow's golden-eye, American! golden-ej'e, Sabine's gull ("one"), 

 Arctic tern, Richardson's ja'ger, t'nlmar ( "abundant from Chidlej to Belle 

 Isle" ), stormy petrel ( "two" ), Wilson's and Leach's petrel ( "Atlantic 

 Labrador"), red-throated diver also loon (not rare), [razor-billed auk 

 '•ommon putHn, and common guillemtit, n(jt observed in ILidson's Straits] 

 sea dove, black guillemot, Mandt's guillemot, Briinnich s guillemot ( " com- 

 mon, l)reeds in Hudson Straits" ). Besides these Turner also mentions as 

 common in Northern Labi'ador the majcjrity of the species which are 

 known to be common in Southern Labrador. 



Still further we have Kumlein's record of the purple tinch ("one on 

 shiplioard off Resolution island" ), goldfinch ^'. tristis ( "un shipboard oi!' 

 Cape Mugford " ), and cinereous shearwater ( "common from Belle Lsle to 

 (ilrinnell Bay " ). Richardson's of the sharp-shinned hawk ("one near 

 Moose Fiictor_y"). Nnttall's of t lie tish hawk (" from Labrador" ), and 

 Jjald eaule as " breeding and rearing their young in all the intermediate 

 .sjjace from Nova Scotia to Lal)rador." Elliott Cones of the possilde oc- 

 currence of the sparrow havvlc, though I have grave doubts of this little fel- 

 low as reaching true Laljrador north of Blanc Sablon, "a single individ- 

 ual," he says, though does not give the locality; of Wilson's snipe (" a 

 single individual " ), buff-breasted sandpiper ( "a single individual" ), ring- 

 billed gull (" three young-of-the-year at Henlej^ Harbor"), sooty shear- 

 water ( "few" ). Dr. Coues's record of the pine-creeping warbler in Lab- 

 rador, as appearing in the " Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ence, of Philadelphia," p. 220, in denied in the " Birds of the Northwest," 

 in the following words, (p. (il)); " 'J'he quotation 'Labrador' originated in 

 an error of mine some years since. The specimen was young of striaia." 



Labrador ought to give us further knowledge of Cepj^hiis niandtii, which 

 Stejneger ("Proceedings of the U. S. Nat. Mus." vol. 7, p. 21G) says to 

 " breed in Greenland," and which is iio( "a synonym of ('. rohiiiilxi" liut, 

 as he say, "a perfectly good species," and that the " National Museum 

 possesses adult birds in breeding plumage from St. George, Hudson's Bay, 

 collected by Mr. Drexler." Mr. Turner says of it : "Occurs in Hudson 

 Straits occasionally only, according to my own oljservation, i)lentiful on 

 the Eastern <;oast of Labrador." Also of the curious form of U. curbi). 

 Kumlein, in "The Natural History of Arctic America," p. 105, says: "1 

 have seen three entirely black specimens, of which I considered to be U. 

 rarho. One was ol)tained in Cumlierland.' Mr. Ridgeway describes a 

 new varietj- of jay [referred to above] in the " Proceedings of the U. S. 

 Nat. Mus." vol. 5, p 15. as " Pcrisdiciis ('(/iinrJi'iisi.s iiii/rii-uj>i//iisy Lnlu-a- 



