BYRON ISLAND. r3 
spot a few families have made their homes. The men fish 
during the summer, while the women do all the work about 
the house. It was a rather amusing sight to see a girl of 
fourteen hard at work chopping wood, swinging an axe with 
the precision of a veteran wood-cutter. 
Byron Island has an area of about four square miles, and 
is mostly covered by a thick growth of diminutive pines. 
While rambling around I observed several species of birds 
waich I did not expect to find on such a deserted spot. 
Among them were Zachyczneta bicolor, Cotyle riparia, Loxia 
leucoptera, Loxia curvirostra var. americana, Silta canadensis, 
and a few scattered Puffins (/vatercula arctica). Gulls and 
Terns were abundant, and a solitary Blue Heron (Ardea 
herodias) stalked with solemn strides through a small marsh 
which had been formed in a depression of the ground by the 
recent rains. 
On the eastern shore of Byron Island a point of sand runs 
out into the ocean for several hundred yards, from which 
grand sport may be had in September; but it cannot com- 
pare with East Point, the most northern point of the con- 
nected chain of islands. 
