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two Wilson's Snipe seen at Flowers Cove, Newfoundland, September 10, 

 1912, for this is near the northern limit of the range of the species. 



19. Pisobia maculata. Pectoral Sandpiper.— Those individuals 

 that were still present at Ticoralak October 12, 1912, were remaining later 

 than usual. 



20. Pisobia fuscicollis. White-rumped Sandpiper. — This species 

 remained still later than P. maculata, for single birds were seen at Battle 

 Harbor to October 29, 1912, while in August they were abundant in flocks 

 of hundreds. 



21. Pisobia minutilla. Least Sandpirer. — This species migrates 

 so late that the first was not seen at Battle Harbor until June 1, 1913. 

 Migrants returned to Battle Harbor August 7, 1912, and remained for 

 about three weeks. 



22. Totanus melanoleucus. Greater Yellow-legs. — The first 

 were seen at Battle Harbor May 14, 1613, and at Sandwich Bay June 4, 

 1915. These places are near the normal northern range of the species. 

 Several were noted September 15, 1912, at Chateau Bay and the last were 

 seen October 12, 1912, at Ticoralak. 



23. Numenius borealis. Eskimo Curlew'. — Though this species 

 may become extinct in the near future, it still existed in 1912, and during 

 that year a few were seen August 17 on Caribou Island; one was recorded 

 at Cartwright in September and four at West Bay during the same month. 



24. Zenaidura macroura carolinensis. Mourning Dove. — The 

 most northern previous record on the Labrador coast for the Mourning 

 Dove is at Red Bay in the Straits of Belle Isle. The known range can now 

 be extended to Battle Harbor where one was seen October 20, 1912, and 

 one found dead on the beach at Spotted Islands during August of the same 

 year. One was shot near Battle Harbor in September, 1912. A close 

 observer of bird life who has lived at Sandwich Bay for fifty years says that 

 during all that time he has seen Mourning Doves only twice, once in 1909 

 and once the following year. 



25. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. Osprey. — To the very few 

 records of this species on the eastern coast of Labrador may be added that 

 a pair was seen at Sandwich Bay May 28, 1915, and again the next day. 

 The species breeds on both North River and White Beai River which flow 

 into Sandwich Bay. 



26. Nyctea nyctea. Snowy Owl. — " Many of the people at Sandwich 

 Bay set steel traps on isolated stumps for owls. These birds are usually 

 very fat and are good eating. The fat is not at all strong " (Birdseye). 



27. Colaptes auratus luteus. Northern Flicker. — This species 

 is probably not so rare as its few records for the eastern coast of Labrador 

 would indicate. One was taken at Sandwich Bay in August, 1908, and one 

 at Okpatok Island, Hudson Strait, October, 1882. These are the only 

 published records for eastern Labrador, but a man who lived at Sandwich 

 Bay and had taken a specimen there the spring of 1909 said that they nested 

 in that neighborhood. In confirmation of this two individuals were heard 

 there June 5, 1915. 



