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APPENDIX. 



AUDTTBON visited Labrador in the Summer of 1833, with his youngest 

 son and four companions whose names have been handed down to us as 

 Thomas Lincoln, William Ingalls, Gworge Shattuck, and Joseph Coolidge. 

 The schooner Ripley was chartered in Boston, and the party sailed from 

 Eastport, Me., on June 6. The course which they pursued the writer fol- 

 lowed in 1875 and again in 1882, and from Audubon's journal accounts 

 must have had nearly the same experiences from fog, wind, and weather. 

 In one of the harbors Audubon met Captain Bayfield, then prosecuting his 

 survey of the Canadian coast. This was, I believe, at Natashquan. Even 

 the great naturalist can become facetious upon occasions, as the following 

 remark will show: "The seals are carried home on sledges drawn by Es- 

 quimaux dogs," he says, "which are so well trained that, on reaching home, 

 they push the seals from the sledges with their noses and return to the kil- 

 lers with regular dispatch." He adds, however, " This, reader, is hear- 

 say !" July 23, he visited the sealing establishment of Mr. Robertson. 

 July 26, he came opposite Bonne Esperance, but, as the pilot did not know 

 the harbor and it was dark, he passed on to Bradore. He speaks of ice- 

 bergs bearing rocks beneath them, " hundreds of tons," and depositing 

 them wherever they stand and melt or go to pieces. But we must pass on 

 to other matter, and, taking my own list as a basis of comparison, surely 

 an allowable proceeding for any writer, will see what additions can be 

 made to it from outside sources, in order to make it a true exposition, as 

 far as possible to date, of our knowledge of the subject. I am helped in 

 this by Mr. Lucien M. Turner's very excellent resume of the subject, en- 

 titled : " List of the Birds of Labrador, including Ungava, East Main, 

 Moose, and Gulf Districts of the Hudson Bay Company, together with the 

 Island of Anticosti," to be found in the " Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum," volume 8, 1883, page 233. In this he reviews what has 

 been said upon the subject of Labrador birds by Audubon, Nuttall, Rich- 

 ardson, Kumlein, and others. 



On the authority of Audubon we may add Wilson's thrush (young, July 

 20), both the kinglets (breeding), red-bellied nuthatch (rare : " one which 

 had probably been driven there by a storm " ), winter wren (Southern 

 Labrador, July 20), black and yellow warbler (breeding), cerulean warbler 

 ("a dead one"), blackburnian warbler ("several"), red-poll warbler 

 (plentiful), Canadian fly-catching warbler (breeding), white-eyed vireo 

 ( " few were seen"), bnnk swallow ("said to be plentiful on the South 



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