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and the Ripley continued on to Bradore Bay. Here Audubon 
called on Mr. Jones, an interesting character, the foremost man 
of the place and visited Perroquet Island, where Puffins, or Perro- 
quets as they are called, bred in countless thousands. He extended 
his explorations to Blane Sablon and succeeded in finding the nest 
of a Horned Lark, long sought in vain. He also secured a pair of 
Black Gyrfalcons called by him Labradorius.! He refers to the now 
extinct Labrador Duck and saw many hundreds of Esquimaux 
Curlew. 
On August 11, Audubon turned homeward by way of Newfound- 
land. His arduous trip was well worth all its hardships. He 
brought back seventy-three bird skins, as well as a large collection 
of plants and other objects of natural history. He observed or 
mentions some ninety-three different species of birds and recorded 
much that was hitherto unknown. Lincoln’s Sparrow was dis- 
covered and described and twenty-three drawings of the birds were 
completed or nearly completed. He worked hard and had been 
well rewarded. 
With my companion, Mr. Harold St. John, botanist, both of us 
for the time, members of the staff of the Canadian Geological 
Survey, I left Montreal on June 24, 1915, on the S. S. Cascapedia. 
My old friend Captain Hearn was in command and he had his 
usual stock of sea tales and witty sayings. Napoleon P. Comeau, 
the veteran naturalist of Godbout, an authority on the life history 
of our salmon and a recognized ornithologist, added to the pleasure 
and interest of the trip. Late at night, on June 27th, we landed at 
Esquimaux Point, where we found our pilot, Captain A. Edmond 
Joncas and his schooner, the Sea Star, and also my friend M. Johan 
Beetz, who had invited me to stay with him at his home in Piashte 
Bay. 
The next morning, leaving Mr. St. John to get settled on the 
Sea Star, I sailed in the little mail schooner with M. Beetz and that 
afternoon arrived at Piashte Bay, where I had the pleasure of spend- 
ing five delightful days with him and his charming family. We 
explored the neighboring land and waters and found an abundant 
1JIn the original plates the Black Gyrfalcon, called obsolelus by Gmelin in 1788, is figured; 
while in ‘The Birds of America,’ although the details of the capture of the birds in Labra- 
dor are given, the bird is described and figured as the Iceland Gyrfalcon. 
