THE AUK: 



A Q^UARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 

 VOL. X. January, 1893. no. 



SUiMMER HIRDS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



nv JONATHAN DWIGHT, JR. 



Lying in the southern part of the Gtilf of St. Lawrence, its 

 low oiithnes just visible from the niaiiilaiul, is Prince Edward 

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

 witli the ru<if<i;ed Labrador or Cape Hreton coasts of the Gulf, 

 this patch of green on the surroundinj;" blue waters might to a 

 fervid imaginatio'.i suggest the appellation of garden, but when 

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

 limited protiuctions of the ishuul are taken into account, not to 

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

 name of "^arden does not strike the beholder as particulariv 

 descriptive. However, it is not my [)resent purpose to do more 

 tl)an indicate the salient features oi' the island's topography and 

 llora, that my fellow ornithologists may follow n'.e the more 

 understandiuirlv in my endeavor to introduce to them the avifauna 

 of a considerable area hitherto neglected by our fraternity. 

 Anticosti, Newfoundland, Cape Breton, and particularly the 

 Magilalen Islands have all been visited, but Prince ICdwaid 

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

 fewer attractions than these wilder, rougher islands. 



Notwithstanding the probability that 1 should only meet with 



