Bird-Life in Labrador. &* 



NIGHT HAWK 



Chordediles popetue. (V.) BD. 



As I have already Included in my list several so-called ex- 

 tra-limital species, a species n9t to be sought probably within 

 the true bounds of Labrador proper, so I quote the night hawk 

 as being common at Natashquan, and probably more or less 

 so all along the southern portion of the North shore. I in- 

 clude this and other like species because I noted them so near 

 Labrador proper, though I do not care thereby to become in*- 

 volved in a critical examination of the birds of the whole of 

 Canada, which, at the present time, I wish particularly to 

 avoid. I may, at the end of the present paper, add a few 

 words upon hypothetical occurrences in Labrador and its im- 

 mediate vicinity, and my reasons for considering each species ; 

 but upon this I am by no means decided. The date of this 

 occurrence was June 20th. 



BELTED KINGFISHER 



Ceryle alcyon. - (L.) BOIE. 



THE kingfisher appears to be more common even than the 

 night hawk, having been seen by our party several times, and 

 reported from Natashquan to Esquimaux River, at the former 

 place, and for some distance east of it, being regarded as a 

 regular Summer resident and breeding, though by no means 

 common. It is safe to infer, that where the kingfisher is found 

 breeding it is not at all unlikely for one to find one or more 

 species of the swallow tribe breeding also near by, though 

 none were reported to me. 



HAIRY WOODPECKER 



Picus mllosus. L. 



IN writing up my biographies of birds I often think of the 

 terrible monotony there would be in going over and over the 

 same old names, and racking one's brain time and again, to 



