THE LABRADOR JOURNAL 



nare" passed us. All my young men are engaged in 

 skinning the Mormon arcticus. 



June 30. I have drawn three birds this day since eight 

 o'clock, one Fringilla lincolnii, one Ruby-crowned Wren, 

 and a male White-winged Crossbill. Found a nest of the 

 Savannah Finch with two eggs; it was planted in the 

 moss, and covered by a rampant branch ; it was made of 

 fine grass, neither hair nor feathers in its composition. 

 Shot the L. marinus in fine order, all with the wings ex- 

 tending nearly two inches beyond the tail, and all in the 

 same state of moult, merely showing in the middle pri- 

 maries. These birds suck other birds' eggs like Crows, 

 Jays, and Ravens. Shot six Phalacrocorax carbo 1 in full 

 plumage, species well ascertained by their white throat ; 

 found abundance of their eggs and young. 



July 1. The weather was so cold that it was painful 

 for me to draw almost the whole day, yet I have drawn a 

 White-winged Crossbill 2 and a Mormon arcticus. We 

 have had three of these latter on board, alive, these three 

 days past; it is amusing to see them running about the 

 cabin and the hold with a surprising quickness, watch- 

 ing our motions, and particularly our eyes. A Pigeon 

 Hawk's 3 nest was found to-day; it was on the top of a fir- 

 tree about ten feet high, made of sticks and lined with 

 moss, and as large as a Crow's nest; it contained two 



1 Common Cormorant. See note on page 370. 



2 Loxia leucoptera. 



8 Le petit caporal, Falco temerarius, AUD. Ornith. Biog. i., 1831, p. 381, pi. 

 85. Falco cohtmbarius, AUD. Ornith. Biog. i., 1831, p. 466, pi. 92 ; v., 1838, 

 p. 368. Synopsis, 1839, p. 16. B. Amer. 8vo, ed. i., 1840, p. 88, pi. 21. Falco 

 auduboni, BLACKWALL, Zool. Researches, 1834. E. C. 



In vol. v., p. 368, Audubon says : " The bird represented in the last 

 mentioned plate, and described under the name of Falco temerarius, was 

 merely a beautiful adult of the Pigeon Hawk, F. cohtmbarius. The great 

 inferiority in size of the individual represented as F. temararius was the 

 cause of my mistaking it for a distinct species, and I have pleasure in stating 

 that the Prince of Musignano [Charles Bonaparte] was the first person who 

 pointed out my error to me soon after the publication of my first volume." 



Bonaparte alludes to this in his edition of Wilson, vol. iii. p. 252. 

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