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shores and islands of Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait. Turner found 

 it breeding plentifully at Ungava. Eifrig found it at Cape Chidley. 

 It nests in tussocks along ponds or on islets and lays two eggs. Bige- 

 low states that it nests by small ponds inland and that it appears on 

 the coast after the young are able to fly. Some individuals may, how- 

 ever, be found there throughout the summer. It begins to breed in 

 southern Labrador early in June and leaves the country when the ice 

 begins to form. At Nain, according to the Rev. Mr. Schmitt it breeds 

 early in July. 



We saw only four of these birds in the Straits of Belle Isle near 

 Battle Harbor on the 10th and 12th of July, and five between Double 

 Island and Nain on July 21st. All of these appeared to be adults. 



Fratercula arctica (Linn.). 

 Puffin; "Paroqtjeet." 



Abundant summer resident along the southern and eastern coast. 



The Puffin or "Paroqueet" as it is universally called in Labrador 

 breeds in colonies on islands along the southern and eastern coasts. 

 Turner says it is not known to enter Hudson Strait. Audubon found 

 fresh eggs on June 28th and young in the nest at Paroqueet Island 

 near Bradore on August 12th. 



H. R. Storer visited Paroqueet Island (near Bradore) on August 18, 

 1849. He says in his journal: "We found the island completely 

 undermined by the Puffins, every inch of soil and every cranny in the 

 rocks taken possession of. Audubon says that more Puffins .breed 

 here than on all the rest of the coast — however that may be we found 

 an immense number as well as of the Razor-bills. Got some birds 

 and a few eggs.'' 



Coues in 1860 met with many thousands of Puffins breeding on the 

 Paroqueet Islands in Esquimaux Bay, and found eggs nearly ready to 

 hatch on July 25th. Brewster observed a large colony of many thou- 

 sands on Paroqueet Island near Mingan Harbor. 



Stearns says of Puffin at Greenery Island near Blanc Sablon: 

 "There could easily have been a multiple, and not a small one of ten 



thousand They make a harsh, rasping sound, not unlike the 



filing of a saw. . . .Though they appear in large numbers at stated 

 times, they disappear, or rather disperse after breeding, almost as 

 suddenly as they came, yet stragglers do not leave until the harbors 

 are blocked up with ice." 



