8 TowNSEND AND Bent, Buds of Labrador. [^an^ 



moult and others in full summer plumage. A male shot on June 5 at Es- 

 quimaux Point in mixed winter and summer plumage showed no evidence 

 of breeding. 



G. Uria troille. Murre; "Murmette" (Fr.). — We saw nine Murres 

 near Agwanus on May 30, either of this species or U. Jomvia; they were, 

 perhaps, migrating birds. At Betchewun we were shown by Mr. Saltzman 

 a mounted specimen of an albino of this species that he had shot there the 

 previous winter. Mr. J. Beetz showed us a similar specimen he had shot 

 near Piashte-bai; both were of a uniform cream white color, with white 

 breasts. 



All the men with whom we talked along the coast as far east as Natash- 

 quan stated that no Murres bred there now, but that these birds were 

 abundant in fall and winter. In the latter season they were often found 

 bewildered or frozen in the woods and on the sea ice. We came upon 

 numerous remains of Murres of both species along the shores. 



7. Alca torda. Razor-billed Auk. — On May 29, we saw five birds of 

 this species between Quatachoo and Watcheeshoo. On the following day 

 near some rocky islands not far from Agwanus, we saw about 25 of these 

 birds. On June 8 and 9 we visited Bald Island off Betchewun and counted 

 17 of these birds. They were flying about the island and swimming in the 

 water near by in groups of half a dozen or more. They appeared to be 

 courting. We found no eggs, and concluded that they had not begun to 

 lay. The limestone cliffs of the island contained suitable ledges for their 

 eggs, and we were told they bred there regularly. We were also told that 

 a very few might still be found breeding on the Peroqueets off Mingan, 

 but we saw none when we passed these islands. 



8. Stercorarius parasiticus. Parasitic Jaeger. — On June 21 we saw 

 from the steamer near Long Point three Jaegers apparently of this species. 



9. Pagophila alba. Ivory Gull. — We saw the wings of an immature 

 bird of this species at Mr. Saltzman's house at Betchewun, and were told 

 by him and M. Beetz that tliis species occurred on the coast in winter. 



10. Larus hyperboreus. Glaucous Gull. — We saw two of these 

 birds near Seven Islands on May 23, one on May 25 between Esquimaux 

 Point and Betchewun, and one near Quatachoo on May 29. These were 

 either migrants or non-breeding birds, and were all apparently immature 

 in the creamy white (Hutchins) plumage. 



11. Larus marinus. Great Black-backed Gull; "Saddle-back"; 

 "Le gros Goeland avec le dos noir " (Fr.).— Common summer resident; 

 seen daily all along the coast, also over inland ponds and rivers which it 

 Aasits from its breeding grounds on the coast. We found the nests of tliis 

 species common on nearly all the small rocky islands visited to the 

 eastward of Esquimaux Point, generally on the lughest and most con- 

 spicuous place. On the bare rocks the nests were often bulky affairs made 

 up of sticks, seaweed and grasses, wliile on the turf, they sometimes con- 

 sisted of large cup-shaped depressions with elevated rims, made up only of 

 the growing turf of grasses and mosses, without the addition of any extran- 



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