48 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 60 
Some little time was spent near Hopedale, ten days on the way 
down and a week on the return trip. A trip was also made inland for a 
distance of thirty-five miles, and some of the outer islands were 
visited. 
The sea birds on the Labrador coast have been sadly reduced in 
numbers by many years of constant persecution and persistent egging. 
The Alcidz have nearly all disappeared, except the black guillemot, 
Fic. 53—Nests of Northern Eider, Labrador. Photograph by Bent. 
which lays its eggs in inaccessible crevices in the rocks. Eiders are 
still locally common, but are rapidly disappearing; only one large 
breeding colony was found. Scoters are still abundant in large 
flocks about the heads of the bays. 
Glaucous gulls still breed on the high rocky cliffs where their nests 
are inaccessible. Great black-backed gulls and herring gulls are 
still fairly common. Land birds are nowhere abundant, with the 
possible exception of the white-crowned sparrow, which is a common 
dooryard bird everywhere. Horned larks, pipits, juncos, Labrador 
jays, tree sparrows, and redpolls are fairly common. 
