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this species have come under my observation, and I am told 

 that at the museum at Bersamis there are several specimens 

 taken from these waters, one having been taken the same year 

 I was there (1880). The same parties left with me the im- 

 pression that there were also eggs of this bird in the same 

 place, though I was unable to verify the statement or hypoth- 

 esis at the time. 



AMERICAN RED NECKED GREBE 



Podiccps yriseiyena holbcdli.. (REINH.) CoUES. 



TITLS is called locally the u Wabby," and much resembles 

 a small loon in its flight and general appearance. It occurs 

 more to the southward, and breeds occasionally on the islands 

 with other sea birds. It is by no means rare, yet can hardly 

 be called common. 



RAZOR BILLED AUK TINKER TURRE 



Utamania torda. (L.) LEACH. 



REGARDING this and the succeeding characteristic birds of 

 Labrador a book could well be written, but we must pass them 

 by with notices merely brief but to the point. With regard 

 to the razor-billed auk, the " tinker " or " turre ?J ^as it is of- 

 ten called, I have noticed them breeding at the Fox Islands, 

 offKekarpwei River, in almost as large colonies as the " para- 

 keets " off Parakeet or Greenley Island. I noticed them, 

 also, in thousands about several other small islands, and found 

 that this species was always very abundant about this locality 

 while much rarer and replaced by the foolish guillemot or 

 " murre " farther northward. Here they breed in the crev- 

 ices of the rocks, long, deep, and narrow clefts being sought. 

 I did not find but a single egg in a nest, but was repeatedly 

 told by the inhabitants that, if I took the eggs, the birds 

 " will lay again another day." The people here systematically 

 take all the eggs they can find regularly twice a week through- 



