1897] Young— Birds of the Magdalen Islands. 157 



Besides the above birds, I saw one hawk, and several spar- 

 rows and warblers which I did not identify. 



In this list most of the birds are included which were met 

 with by Mr. William Brewster during his trip to the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence in 1881, (vide proceedings of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History 1882-83. Page 364.) All these birds were 

 clearly identified by myself and the nests where noted and examined^ 

 Of species noted by him as seen in the Magdalens, I did not 

 meet with the black and yellow warbler ; the night-hawk and the 

 red-throated diver. On the other hand I am able to add to his list of 

 birds mentioned in those islands, 1 5 species,viz.,the Holboell's grebe, 

 the horned grebe, the scaup duck, the A. bittern, the lora, Wilson's 

 snipe, the piping plover, the screech owl, the rusty blackbird, 

 the pine grosbeak, the A. crossbill, the golden-w-warbler, the 

 winter wren, the Hudsonian tit and the golden crowned wren. 



The Island of Anticosti is doubtless a better locality for 

 observing the birds that frequent the islands aud shores of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence than the Magdalen Is., as the population 

 on the latter is now considerable, and in a short summer tour it 

 is sometimes difficult to get about from island to island. 



I may add that the 'flora of the Magdalen Is., is for the 

 most part scanty and uninteresting. I made but a small list of 

 plants, meeting with nothing of particular rarity, though some of 

 them of course are of very local distribution, such as the trailing 

 juniper, Mertensia maritima, Hudsonia tomentosa, Lathyrus 

 marithnus, Arenaria poploides, Hierochloa borealis, (the holy 

 grass) and a few others, mostly beach plants. On Grosse Isle 

 I found the orchis Habenaria viridis, growing quite abundant- 

 ly, and the 'dill' is a common . and noticeable plant on Grind- 

 stone Is., growing in damp meadows. — 



A trip to these islands is a very pleasant and healthful 

 summer outing, but in the months^pf April and May \yhen the 

 cross-bills and grosbeaks should be breeding the weather is cold 

 and foggy and at times said to be very wet. 



