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naturalists, and possessed of a cheerful home to which I can retire, 

 surrounded by my feathered favorites, I should most probably either 

 have descended to an early grave, or been the habitual frequenter 

 of the tobacco and dram shops. No ; the country for me, before 

 all the grandeur and pleasui'e of the toAvn. Old Waterton once 

 said to me, he would sooner be in the woods than in the finest 

 palace in Europe. 



Art. VI. Observations on the Sea-birds frequenting the 

 COAST OF St. Margaret's Bay, N. S. By Key. John Am- 

 brose. 



[Read Jan'y 9, 1865.] 



For the convenience of persons wishing to make enquiries of our 

 fishermen, or desii'ous of obtaining specimens from them, I give the 

 names by which they distinguish the sea-birds with which they are 

 familiar, together with the scientific equivalents of those names, so 

 far as I have been able to identify them : — 



Loon — ( Colymhus glacialis.) 



Sea-duck — Eider — (Anas moUissima.') 



Bottle-nose Drake — King eider — (Fuligula spectahilis.') 



Coot, black — Common Scoter — (Anas nigra?) 



Coot, bottle-nose— Surf Scoter — {A. perspicillata.) 



Parrot — Puffin — (Mormon fratercula.) 



MURR. 

 TURR. 



Lord or Imp — Harlequin duck — (Anas histrionica.) 



Cockaw^ee — Long-tailed Duck — (A. glacialis.) 



Hag-dov^^n — Manx Shearwater — (Procellaria, Pnffinus.) 



Shell-Drake — (Anas tadorna.) 



Ped-breasted Merganser — (Mergus serrator.) 



Grey Dipper. 



White Dipper. 



Black Duck — (Anas boschas.) 



Common Teal — (Anas Crecca.) 



Sea Pigeon, 



Little Auk — Rotche — ( Uria minor.) 



Storm Petrel — (Thalassidroma pelagica). 



Canada Goose — (Anser Canadensis.) 



