292 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



In the summer of 1862 the late N. Vickary, of Lynn, went to Labra- 

 dor, but published nothing on the subject. 



Dr. A. S. Packard visited Labrador in 1860 and in 1864, as will be 

 noted later. 



W. A. Stearns spent two summers and one whole year in Labrador, 

 his explorations being confined to the southern coast. The two 

 summer months of 1875 were spent within a radius of 60 miles south- 

 west and 10 miles northeast of Bonne Esperance. He stayed from 

 September, 1880, to September, 1881, at Bonne Esperance and 

 explored the coast from Mingan to Red Bay; in July and August, 

 1882, he again visited the Labrador coast sailing from Boston in a 

 sloop. He touched at various points between Bonne Esperance in 

 the Straits of Belle Isle and Triangle Harbor a few miles south of 

 Hamilton Inlet. 



Ludwig Kumlien did not actually visit Labrador, but he has recorded 

 some interesting observations made while skirting its coast on his 

 voyage to and from Greenland. He sailed north from Newfoundland 

 in 1877, going through the Straits of Belle Isle on August 18th. On 

 August 22d he was off Cape Mugford. His return trip was made 

 in October, 1878, along the northern coast of Labrador and the 

 eastern coast of Newfoundland. 



William Brewster, in 1881, while exploring the Bay of St. Lawrence 

 and Anticosti, reached the southern coast of Labrador at the Mingan 

 Islands. He was at these islands from July 17th to July 22d. 



Lucien M. Turner appears to have been the first ornithologist to 

 reach northern Labrador. He was in Labrador from June 15, 

 1882, to October 3, 1884, and he stayed at Fort Chimo on the shores 

 of Ungava Bay from August 6, 1882, to September 4, 1884. His 

 ornithological notes, including a list of the birds, were first published 

 in 1885. 



In 1891, A. S. Packard republished this list bringing it up to date 

 by notes written by Dr. J. A. Allen. Professor Packard spent the 

 summer of 1860 on the southern Labrador coast near the mouth of the 

 Esquimaux River. In the summer of 1864 he joined the party of 

 William Bradford, the marine artist, and explored the coast in a 

 schooner from Henley Harbor to Hopedale. On the return trip he 

 sailed along the Straits of Belle Isle as far west as Caribou Island. 

 Although he devoted himself chiefly to the geology and marine inver- 

 tebrates, he has recorded many interesting observations on the birds. 



