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On a camping trip up Harry's Brook we saw sapsuckers, a water- 

 thrush, downy and hairy woodpeckers, a black and white creeper and 

 the Hudsonian chickadee. Arrived at St. Johns, we found one of the 

 interesting excursions to take was to Signal Hill, where we ascended 

 the Cabot Memorial Tower and had a magnificent view of the ocean. 

 Cape Spear — the easternmost point of North America, and the beau- 

 tiful harbor of St. Johns. Here we saw our first pipits and heard 

 their sweet, clear little notes, as they wheeled about overhead. 



One day we took an auto stage to Portugal Cave, a primitive little 

 settlement, where we got a fisherman with his sailboat to put us over 

 to Bell Island. As we approached the steep, almost overhanging cliffs, 

 the lovely, velvety guillemots flew about in great numbers and soon 

 we saw that the rocks were swarming with the nesting birds. The 

 white spots in the centre of the wings gave them away; otherwise it 

 would have been almost impossible to detect them as they nestled in 

 some tiny crevice or on some narrow ledge. 



We stopped for a day in beautiful Bay of Islands (Labrador) and 

 while walking along the shore from Humbermouth to Curling we were 

 much entertained by two inquisitive alder flycatchers, one of which 

 finally ventured so far as to fly over to my companion and alight on 

 her shoulder, possibly attracted by the color of the red sweater which 

 she wore. The other started toward me, but just before he reached 

 me, wheeled about and retreated, probably frightened by a reflection 

 on my eye-glasses. In a trip through the grand canyons of Humber 

 River, we saw a kingflsher, a solitary loon, a merganser and a duck. 



NOTES ON FLORIDA BIRDS 



EvALiNE Darling Mougan, Woodstock 



Lake Helen, where we spent last winter, is located about 150 miles 

 south from Jacksonville and 18 miles westward from New Smyrna, 

 which is on the east coast of Florida. The country in this section is 

 diversified by low hills, sandy plains, cypress swamps, scrub palmetto 

 barrens, forests of the majestic Southern pine, and by numerous small 

 lakes and ponds. 



In the village of Lake Helen, water oaks, sweet gum, magnolia 

 and camphor trees have been planted, the native pine trees, splendid 

 specimens upwards of a hundred feet in height, have been allowed to 



