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about, it IS very nioiuitaiiious, with but few 

 pouds or marshes, and covered with bad wood, 

 which is chiefly small, old, stunted, black-spruce. 

 I observed a chain of ponds, or marshes run from 

 the south side of Goose Cove, across to Table Bay; 

 a small part of which, I could see. The Gannet 

 Islands on one side, and Wolf Islands on the other 

 were plainly to be discerned, but there was no 

 water in sight. From the Gannet Islands in- 

 wards, the ice was new made, and clear of snow; 

 without, was the main jam, perfectly Arm. To 

 the northward, the coast is low, with many small 

 islands; from which I judge it would be danger- 

 ous to navigate from hence to sea that way. On 

 the hill there was much tracking of grouse and 

 some of spruce-game in the woods; also, signs of 

 porcupines, but I could find none. I was pleas- 

 ingl}" entertained with the melodious singing of 

 the cross-beaked linnets;' they remain all winter 

 with us, and feed on the seeds of black spruce. 

 What made their music more agreeable, was the 

 novelty; this being the first time that I have heard 

 the note of any bii'd this year, except the jay,^ 

 which chants its short coarse tune everv mild dav 

 thi-ou.^!! the whole winter. 



Thiirsdaij, March 14, 1770. As I was going to 



' Probably the whito-winged crossbill, Loxia leucoptera, part of whose 

 Bong, wliifh is very indodioiiH, roscrnblos that of the canary- The song 

 of the Anu'rican crossbill, Loxia currirostra ininnr, althongh sweet is not 

 so pleasing. This latter species probably spends the winter farther to 

 the wMjth. 



' I,abrafh)r jay, I'lrisorrvs nnin/h-risis 7iii/rirti/nllits. Vov a discussion 

 of this subject of the song of the jay, sec 'I'ow nscnd and Allen, " Hirds 

 of Labnulor," Boston, 1907, p. .380. 



