14 TowNSEND AND Bent, BirJs of Labrador. [jai!^ 



(Fr.); "'Wapino" (Ind.)- — Monsieur Beetz gave usa specimen in the white 

 plumage in the flesh taken at Piashte-bai in winter and kept in his cold 

 storage plant. Both he and Mr. Saltzman and Mr. Wilson and others all 

 agreed in the statement that this ptarmigan is abundant along the coast 

 in the winter only every five or six years. This was the case last winter 

 during which Mr. Saltzman killed 63. In the intermediate winters very 

 few or none are seen, and they are not foimd in summer. 



44. Circus hudsonius. Marsh Hawk. — A pair of these birds was seen 

 on June 11 about two miles inland from Esquimaux Point, circling over 

 the bog. Audubon's and Stearns's records are the only previous ones for 

 this species. 



45. Accipiter atricapillus. Goshawk. — We saw a mounted specimen 

 of an immatiu'e bird of this species in the collection of M. Beetz. It was 

 taken at Piashte-bai. 



46. Falco peregrinus anatum. Duck Hawk. — We found the remains 

 of a Duck Hawlc on Bald Island. 



47. Falco columbarius. Pigeon Hawk. — We saw one or two birds 

 of this species at nearly every place along the coast. At Esquimaux 

 Island on June 3 we were attracted by the cackling notes of a Pigeon Hawk, 

 and by following the notes found the nest in a thick clump of spruces. It 

 was fourteen feet from the ground in a red spruce, and seemed to have 

 been built in an old crow's nest that had also been used by squirrels. A 

 thin fresh lining of lichens and small twigs had been added. At tliis date 

 there were three eggs, and five when collected on June 7. 



At the mouth of the Mingan River on June 17, we were similarly guided 

 to another nest which contained four fresh eggs. This nest was 24 feet 

 from the ground in a black spruce in a clearing. It appeared to be newly 

 made of dead sticks, thickly lined with soft fine rootlets. The female was 

 moulting from first winter into adult plumage. The male was in full adult 

 plumage. Both birds contained White-throated Sparrows in their stomachs. 



48. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. Osprey. — Fish Hawks were 

 common along the coast especially at the mouths of the rivers, where they 

 apparently lived on trout. We were told by salmon fishers that they 

 sometimes found the marks of their talons on salmon. 



49. Ceryle alcyon. Belted Kingfisher. — We saw a Kingfisher on 

 the little Natashquan River on June 1, and another on June 21 on the 

 Mingan River. 



50. Colaptes auratus luteus. Northern Flicker. — We saw two pairs 

 of Flickers near the Isles des Corneilles and heard one at Mingan. 



51. Tyrannus tyrannus. Kingbird. — As Audubon's is the only pre- 

 vious record for southern Labrador, it is. interesting to note that we saw a 

 Kingbird at Esquimaux Island on June 7, and perhaps the same bird in 

 the village of Esquimaux Point on June 10.' 



> Hantzsch has recorded a specimen taken at Killinck July 1906, and another some 

 years previously at Makkovik. (Journ. fur Ornithologie, Vol. LVI, 1908, p. 379.) 



