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secured from the Labrador Peninsula suggest Bicknell’s Thrush as 
they are all small. A study of a larger series is, however, needed 
to determine the status of this bird in Labrador. 
On July 26, 1833, Audubon recorded in his Journal that they 
intended to call at Chevalier’s settlement but were unable to do so. 
On the same day, of July, eighty-two years later our Captain guided 
us safely in the Sea Star among the maze of islands into the mouth 
of the Esquimaux or St. Paul River and we paid our respects to 
Louis Owen Chevalier, whose father, Louis David, was a baby at 
the time that Audubon passed along the coast. His first ancestor 
to come to the New World was elevated to the peerage as the Cheva- 
lier de St. Paul and his descendant appeared to me to retain a 
certain aristocratic manner and speech. He was eking out a 
scanty existence by netting salmon at the mouth of the river. 
The next day, we sailed on the final lap of the course and dropped 
anchor in Bradore Bay, now as in Audubon’s day, reeking of fish 
and fishermen and filled with fog. Perroquet Island was one of my 
first objective points and I found the Puffins, or Perroquets as they 
are called, noticeably less than when I passed the island in 1906, 
and immeasurably less than in Audubon’s day. If the present 
slaughter still goes on, they will soon be extinct here. At Greenley 
Island near by, the presence of the lighthouse keeper has a certain 
restraining effect on the fishermen, and the number of birds is larger. 
At Perroquet Island, the birds are shot in great numbers on their 
arrival in the spring by the Labradorians who camp on the island. 
They are shot by Newfoundland fishermen during the summer, 
caught in gill nets spread over the ground and dug out from their 
burrows.! Jacques Cartier visited this island which he calls the 
“Tsland of Birds” in 1534 and gives an unmistakable account of 
Puffins. He describes them as “Crows with red beaks and red 
feet; they make their nests in holes under the ground, even as 
Conies.” 
The steamer which was coming from Battle Harbor and was to 
take me to Newfoundland for my journey home, was due at any 
time, but fog and storm delayed her for five days. These days were 
1See “ Bird Conservation in Labrador.’’ By C. W. Townsend, being Appendix IV in 
Seventh Annual Report of Commission of Conservation, Canada, 1916. 
