THE AUK: 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



Vol. xxx. January, 1913. No. 1. 



SOME MORE LABRADOR NOTES. 



nv CHARLES W. TOWNSEND, M. I). 1 



Plates I II. 

 The following notes on the birds of tin- Labrador Peninsula are 



(he result of a ennoe trip some eighty miles up tlie Natashquan 

 river and ten or fifteen miles up a subsidiary stream, and of the 

 steamer journey to and from the mouth of the river. Owing to 

 the almost continuous stormy weather during the four weeks of 

 the trip, conditions for bird observation were unsatisfactory. In 

 addition (he start was made later than I had intended and the 

 SOng season was nearly over. 



Leaving Quebec on July 20, L912, I reached Natashquan on 

 July 25 and started up the great river the next day with a compan- 

 ion ami two French fishermen. The Natashquan River empties 

 into the Gulf of St. Lawrence about half way between the base of 



the peninsula and the Straits of Belle Isle. On August 1 a point 

 was reached ahout eighty miles up the river, some sixty miles from 

 the sea in a direct line. Returning aboul forty miles, a suhsidiary 

 Stream on the west side was ascended ten or fifteen miles and three 

 da\ 9 were spent in exploring the small lakes and surrounding coun- 

 try. Returning to Natashquan, I caught the steamer on August 

 10 and reached Quebec on August I I. 



In the paper by Mr. Bent and myself " a description of this coastal 



trip of the Labrador Peninsula is given, as well as our reasons 



i Read at the meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Nov. 12, L912. 

 i Additional Notes on the Birds of Labrador. Auk, XXVII, 1910, pp. 1-18. 



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