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144 TownseEenND, In Audubon’s Labrador. 
towered ten or fifteen feet higher. The Arctic zone was still here, 
however, for the hills, which reached a height of five or six hundred 
feet, extended their rocky and lichen-covered summits a couple of 
hundred feet above the tree line. 
Near here the Grand Portage begins. This is a narrow winding 
portage path that the moccasined feet of the Montagnais Indians 
have worn and polished for generations. It leads over the hills 
and by little lakes to the Big Coxipi River. Thence by a series of 
lakes and portages to the St. Paul River and over the height of land 
to Hamilton Inlet. A portage path is well suited to the purposes 
of an ornithologist, for on it he may cover large areas of country 
without the necessity of struggling through the thick growths except 
for short forays on either side. Near an Indian camping site, with 
wonderful views of the Inlet, a Labrador Jay was foraging and utter- 
ing his weird calls and it was not far from here that I obtained my 
type specimens of the Labrador Chickadee. 
Our two days at Shekatika were very interesting, but, taking 
advantage of a favorable wind, we had to be on our way. We 
landed at Grassy Isle with its sand beach and fringe of strand wheat, 
an elevated elastic tundra of lichens, mosses and curlew berry, a 
pool of clear water and beyond this, fifty or sixty feet above the sea, 
an elevated beach of small and large pebbles. This was an example 
of the raised beaches which so puzzled Audubon, that are so com- 
mon on this rising coast. 
Our next landing was at Old Fort, the ancient Port of Brest, an 
interesting place. Forty or fifty feet above the narrow shelf close 
to the sea, where the little winter village stands, is a terrace and 
about a hundred and fifty feet higher another terrace, while on 
either side still higher are others. All bear the familiar earmarks of 
raised beaches. Behind is a Jand of rocky peaks and lakes and bogs, 
with small patches of forest in the protected valleys. Spruce 
Grouse, with their young were common and easily approached. 
Here and at Grand Romaine, I had seen and heard Gray-cheeked 
Thrushes but unfortunately secured only one specimen. The 
measurements! of this and of two other specimens previously 
1 The measurements are as follows: Col. Bent, 3741 9 Esquimaux Point, June 13, 1909. 
Wing 102; Tail 73; Bill13; Tarsus 28. Col. C. W.T.1192 9 Cape Charles, July 28, 1906. 
Wing 95; Tail 67, Bill 13; Tarsus 23. Col. C. W. T. 1448 9 Grand Romaine. Wing 90; 
Tail_67; Bill 12; Tarsus 25. 
