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 * 
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 
1In 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. 
