Jiird- Life in 



i, duck hawk, osprey ( "on Northwest River " ), goshawk, rough- 

 1 egged hawk ( " light and dark " ), golden eagle ( " breeds " j, ruffed grouse, 

 greater and lesser yellow-legs, red and northern phalarope, Virginia rail 

 ( " one, Hamilton Inlet" ), coot ( "one, Nain " ), whistling swan colum- 

 Iriana ( " occasional " ), greater snow goose ( " occasional " ), green-winged 

 teal, Barrow's golden-eye, American golden-eye, Sabine's gull ("one"), 

 Arctic tern, Richardson's jigger, fulmar ( " abundant from Cbidley to Belle 

 Isle" ), stormy petrel ( " two" ), Wilson's and Leach's petrel ( " Atlantic, 

 Labrador"), red-throated diver also loon (not rare), [razor-billed auk. 

 Common puffin, and common guillemot, not observed in Hudson's Straits], 

 sea dove, black guillemot, Mandt's guillemot, Briinnich's guillemot ( " com- 

 mon, breeds in Hudson Straits " ). Besides these Turner also mentions as 

 common in Northern Labrador the majority of the species whiqh are 

 known to be common in Southern Labrador. 



Still further we, have Kurnlein's recor;d of the purple finch ( "one on 

 shipboard off Resolution Island " ), goldfinch 8. tristis ( "on shipboard off 

 Cape Mugford " ), and cinereous shearwater ( "Common from Belle Isle to 

 Grinnell Bay"). Richardson's of the sharp-shinned hawk ("one near 

 Moose Factory" ). Nuttall's of the fish hawk ( "from Labrador" ), and 

 bald eagle as " breeding and rearing their young ,in all the intermediate 

 space from Nova Scotia to Labrador." Elliott Coues of the possible oc- 

 currence of the sparrow hawk, though I have grave doubts of this little fel- 

 low as reaching true Labrador north of Blanc Sablon, "a single individ- 

 ual," he says, though does not give the locality; of Wilson's snipe (" a 

 single individual " ), buff-breasted sandpiper ( " a single individual" )> ring- 

 billed gull ("three young-of-the-year at Henley Harbor"), sooty shear- 

 water ( "few" ). Dr. Coues's record of the pine-creeping warbler in Lab- 

 rador, as appearing in the "Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ence, of Philadelphia," p. 220, in denied in the " Birds of the Northwest," 

 in the following words, (p. 69): "The quotation 'Labrador' originated in 

 an error of mine some years since. The specimen was young of striata." 



Labrador ought to give us further knowledge of Cepphus mandtii, which 

 Stejneger ("Proceedings of the U. S. Nat. Mus." vol. 7, p. 216) says to 

 " breed in Greenland," and which is not "a synonym of C. cohimba" but, 

 as he say, " a perfectly good species," and that the " National Museum 

 possesses adult birds in breeding plumage from St. George, Hudson's Bay, 

 collected by Mr. Drexler." Mr. Turner says of it : "Occurs in Hudson 

 Straits occasionally only, according to my own observation, plentiful on 

 the Eastern coast of Labrador." Also of the curious form of U. carbo. 

 Kumlein, in "The Natural History of Arctic America," p. 105, says: "I 

 have seen three entirely black specimens, of which I considered to be U. 

 carbo. One was obtained in Cumberland." Mr. Ridgeway describes a 

 new variety of jay [referred to above] in the " Proceedings of the U. S. 

 Nat. Mus." vol. 5, p. 15, as " Perisoreus Canadensis nicfricapillns" Lnbra- 



