THE AUK: 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 

 ORNITHOLOGY. 



Vol. XXVII. January, 1910. No. 1. 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF LABRADOR.^ 



BY CHARLES W. TOWNSEND, M. D., AND A. C. BENT. 

 Plates I-III. 



The following notes are intended to supplement the 'Birds of 

 Labrador' - published in 1907. They are the result of an ornitho- 

 logical excursion to the southern Labrador coast in the spring of 

 1909. 



The itinerary was as follows: Leaving Quebec on the mail 

 steamship on May 21, 1909, we reached the beginning of the 

 Labrador Peninsula on INIay 23, some 345 miles from Quebec and 

 30 miles to the west of Seven Islands. This point is where the 

 50th parallel strikes the coast in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. From 

 here, stopping at a few places, we skirted the coast as far as Esqui- 

 maux Point, where we left the steamer on May 24. The next day 

 we started in a small sail boat and cruised for a week along the coast 

 and among the islands to the eastward as far as Natashquan, 

 about 85 miles from Escjuimaux Point and some 255 miles from the 

 westernmost point on the coast of the Labrador Peninsula. On 

 this trip we landed and explored at Betchewun, Isles des Corneilles, 

 Piashte-bai where we ascended the river five or six miles to the 

 falls, Great Piashte-bai, Quatachoo and Watcheeshoo. We spent 

 two days at Natashquan and returned by steamer on the night 



1 Read before the Nuttall Ornithological Club. November 1, 1909. 



2 Birds of Labrador. By Charles W. Townsend, M. D. and Glover M. Allen. 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 277-428, pi. 29. Boston, July, 1907. 

 See also Townsend, Labrador Notes, Auk, Vol. XXVL p. 201, 1909. 



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