112 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Blane Sablon forms the dividing line between the Province of Que- 
bee on the left hand and southwest and Labrador on the northeast. 
All along the coast there are little harbors and bays some of small 
and some large size. All these places that can harbor a vessel contain 
from one to three and eight—the usual number—of houses. They are 
various distances apart, say from half a mile to 8 miles, though gener- 
ally 3 to 5 miles. Itis thus, save in one or two rough places, easy to 
go along the coast in small boats, stopping here or there in rough 
weather or at night. 
In 1875 I made a summer excursion to Labrador, and remained there 
about two months chiefly within a radius of 60 miles southwest, and 
10 northeast of Bonne Espérance. 
In 1880 I visited the coast in September, and remained there the fall, 
winter, and spring of 1880~81, returning home after an absence of just 
one year on the coast. During that time I visited nearly all the im- 
portant points from Mingan to Red Bay. 
In 1882 I spent the summer on the coast again, starting from Boston, 
as I had done in 1875 (my 1880-81 trip had been from Quebec), with a 
party of about twelve young college men, when much good work was 
done in collecting, but owing to insufficient apparatus only enough to 
show what might be done with a properly fitted-out craft going for this 
express purpose and no other. 
The following list of mammals, birds, and plants will show what has 
been accomplished in that line, and it is hoped that they will add, if 
ever so little, to our knowledge of the Labrador fauna and flora. Much 
more remains to be done, however, in each of these departments. 
My examinations have been chiefly along the sea-coast. The interior 
has been rarely, if ever, to any great extent invaded by man. 
: W. A. STEARNS. 
MAMMALS. 
During the three trips that I have made to Labrador I have found 
the following mammals more or less abundant (according to their 
designation) all along the coast: 
LYNX CANADENSIS (Desm.), Raf. Canada Lyne. 
Common, especially in winter, when it is hunted for its fur all along 
the coast. 
CANIS LUPUS, Linné, var. GRISEO-ALBUS. Gray Wolf. 
Reported as seen occasionally, but very rare. 
VULPES FULVUS (Desm.), var. FULVUS. Red Fox. 
Abundant, especially in furring season. 
VULPES FULVUS (Desm.), var. ARGENTATUS. Silver Fox; Black Fou. 
The former variation is not uncommon; the latter is rare along the 
coast. I saw three beautiful skins of the black variation, with scarcely 
a light hair in them, caught on the coast. 
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