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146 TOWNSEND, Jn Audubon’s Labrador. 
spent at Blanc Sablon where I enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. Edwin 
G. Grant, the agent of the great fishing establishment of Job Bros. 
& Co. Ltd. The valley of Blane Salbon is of intense interest to the 
botanist and geologist as well as to the ornithologist, but space does 
not permit me here to more than hint at its joys. There is a broad 
flat valley floor with terraced hillsides and raised beaches on either 
side and elevated plains beyond. At the shore is ancient granitic 
rock and white sand, while the terraces are of red Cambrian sand- 
stone. I found a pair of Wilson’s Snipe, evidently breeding in one 
of the swampy meadows, and, in the thickets about the brook, 
were Swamp Sparrows and Lincoln’s Sparrows and, to my great 
surprise, another species of the same genus, namely the Song 
Sparrow. As far as I know there is no other record for the whole 
Labrador Peninsula for the Song Sparrow except at Lake Mistas- 
sini, while in Newfoundland there are but few records. The 
Magdalen Islands are generally considered to be the northern limit 
on the eastern coast for this species. The specimen I obtained has, 
according to Mr. Bangs, the characteristics of the Nova Scotia bird. 
In the sand dunes here and at Anse aux Dunes, Savannah Spar- 
rows abounded but my search for Ipswich Sparrows was fruitless. 
On the afternoon of August 2, in one of the lucid intervals of fog,. 
the horn of the mail steamer Meigle was heard blowing and I bade 
good bye to my hospitable friends. I turned away from Labrador 
with very different feelings from those of Audubon, who recorded 
in his ‘Journal’: “Seldom in my life have I left a country with as 
little regret as I do this.” 
