378 LABRADOR 



treasures. When I was in Labrador in the summer of 1906, 

 the fishermen made no concealment of the fact that they 

 took all the eggs and killed all the birds they could. They 

 often carried their guns with them when they visited their 

 fish-traps. In the spring and fall great numbers of migrat- 

 ing ducks, and even gulls, are shot as they stream through 

 the narrow tickles. 



The Eskimo dogs are not fed in summer, and, foraging 

 for themselves, they ransack the coast and undoubtedly 

 destroy many eggs and young, not only of the larger water- 

 birds, but also of other ground nesting birds, such as pipits 

 and horned larks. 



It is sincerely to be hoped that the wonderful nursery 

 for water-birds in Labrador will not be entirely depopulated, 

 but that sufficient protection for the breeding birds will be 

 given, and that speedily, lest it be soon too late. 



Notwithstanding these inroads on the birds, Labrador is 

 still of great interest to the ornithologist, and it may be 

 well to take up in turn some of the characteristic birds l 

 to be found at the present day in the three faunal zones 

 into which the Labrador peninsula may be divided, 

 the Arctic Zone, the Hudsonian Zone, and the Canadian 

 Zone. 



The Arctic Zone includes the barren grounds above the 

 limit of tree growth on all the larger hills and mountains in 

 the interior, the whole northern portion as far south as 

 about lat. 58, and the entire coastal strip of varying 



1 In a recent study of the birds of Labrador by Dr. Glover M. 

 Allen and myself, we have recorded two hundred and thirteen species 

 and subspecies of birds for the Labrador peninsula, as shown in the 

 list in the Appendix. 



