THE AUK : 



A (QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 

 VOL. X. January, 1893. no. i. 



SUMMER BIRDS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



nv JONATHAN 1>\VIGHT, JR. 



LviNO ill tlic soullieni part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, its 

 low outlines just visii)le tVoin the maiulaiul, is Prince Edward 

 Island, called by some one the 'Garden of the Gulf.' Compared 

 with the rnii;o;e(l Labrador or Cape Breton coasts of the Gulf, 

 this patch of <!;reen oti the surroundin<;- blue waters might to a 

 fervid imagination suggest the appellation of garden, but when 

 the climate, with its long winters and brief summers, and the 

 limited productions of tl-.e island arc taken into account, not to 

 mention the semi-civilized aspect of much of the country, the 

 name of garden does not strike the beholder as particularly 

 descriptive. However, it is not my present purpose to do more 

 than indicate the salient features of the island's topography and 

 flora, that my fellow ornithologists may follow me the more 

 understandingly in my endeavor to introduce to them the avifauna 

 of a considerable area hitherto neglected by our fraternity. 

 Anticosti, Nevvfoundlaiul, Cape Breton, and particularly the 

 Magdalen Islands have all been visited, but Prince Edward 

 Island has been passed by, probably because it seemed to oiler 

 fewer attractions than tliese wililer, r(>ugher islands. 



Notwithstanding the probability that I shouUl only meet w ith 



