136 Townsenn, In Audubon’s Labrador. [ Age 
bird-life. Of warblers, the Black and White, Tennessee, Yellow, 
Myrtle, Magnolia, Black-poll, Yellow Palm and Wilson’s were all 
in full song as well as a few Water-Thrushes, Maryland Yellow- 
throats and Redstarts. Yellow-bellied and Olive-sided Flycatchers 
were there and White-throated, White-crowned, Lincoln’s and 
Swamp Sparrows and Juncos were common. Eiders with their 
dusky, downy broods and Great Black-backed Gulls with their 
speckled young abounded in the bay. On the river were broods 
of Black Ducks and I found a nest of a Red-breasted Merganser or 
“ Bec-sie,” with eight eggs under some spruce bushes and Labrador 
tea. 
I had also the great pleasure of examining with M. Beetz his 
interesting collection of birds and found in it no less than six species 
new to the list of birds previously recorded from the Labrador 
Peninsula. These were Kumlein’s Gull, European Widgeon, Lesser 
Seaup, Killdeer, Red-winged Blackbird and Cliff Swallow. M. 
Beetz also showed me specimens that were intermediate between 
the Northern and American Eider.! 
On July 1, Mr. St. John arrived in the Sea Star and the next day 
we reached Natashquan, formerly called American Harbor, the 
starting point of Audubon’s trip on the Labrador coast. This was 
familiar ground to me and we stayed at the house of the Captain’s 
brother, Richard Joncas, the head of the “ Labrador Fur Company.” 
Here, like Audubon, we were detained by unfavorable weather, 
but the five days were well spent. Like Audubon also, I visited 
the Montagnais Indians at the mouth of the Great Natashquan 
River. They had recently come out of the interior for their annual 
religious festivities and for trading. I also followed the great 
ornithologist’s footsteps up the shores of the Little Natashquan 
River as far as the falls. It was at Natashquan that Tom Lincoln 
shot the sparrow that Audubon recognized as new to science and 
named after this young man. “Three cheers,” he writes in his 
Journal, “were given him when, proud of the prize, I returned to 
the vessel to draw it.” In the plate he has drawn, the pale laurel, 
the cloudberry or bake apple and the Labrador tea, plants which, 
he says, were gathered by Tom Lincoln for the purpose. 
1See Auk, 1916, XX XIII, pp. 286-292. 
