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of his son, John Woodhouse Audubon, Dr. George C. Shattuck 

 and William Ingalls of Boston, Thomas Lincoln of Dennisville, 

 Maine, and Joseph Coolidge. They sailed through the Strait of 

 Canso, visited the Magdalen Islands, and passed Bird Rock, white 

 as snow with Gannets. The Ripley came to anchor in American 

 Harbor,. Labrador, near the mouth of the Natashquan River, on June 

 17th. From this point they cruised easterly along the southern 

 coast of Labrador, touching at Little Mecatine, Baie de Portage, 

 and Bras d' Or. They spent nearly two months in Labrador and 

 sailed for home on August 11, 1833. 



Audubon's southern blood was chilled by the rough climate, and 

 his spirits were depressed by the ruggedness and desolation of the 

 scenery. He accomplished an immense amount of work, however, 

 rising at three o'clock, and drawing often for seventeen hours almost 

 continuously in the crowded, wet, and usually very unsteady cabin. 

 Here he was obliged to protect his work from the water which dropped 

 from the rigging, as there was no window to the cabin and the only 

 light was admitted through the hatches. He was often wet to the 

 skin, chilled by the cold, pestered by the innumerable flies and mos- 

 quitoes, frequently seasick and worn by the long hours without sleep. 

 He attributes' his fatigue to none of these, but exclaims: "No! No! 

 It is that I am no longer young." He found the sea birds breeding 

 in great numbers on the islands, observed the actions of the piratical 

 "eggers," and witnessed the great flight of Eskimo Curlew. He 

 added a new species to science in the Lincoln's Sparrow, named by 

 him after his young companion, Tom Lincoln. 



His "Journal" states that "twenty-three drawings have been 

 executed, or commenced and nearly completed." Among these are 

 the drawings of the Loon, Puffin, Pomarine Jaeger, Arctic Tern, 

 Gannet, Common Cormorant, Eskimo Curlew, Willow Ptarmigan, 

 Labrador Gyrfalcon, Horned Lark, White-winged Crossbill, Redpoll, 

 Lincoln's Sparrow, Pipit, Hudsonian Chickadee, and Ruby-crowned 

 Kinglet. Seventy-three bird skins were prepared, mostly by his son 

 John. Besides the plates, the results of this Labrador trip are given 

 in frequent references in Audubon's written works. 



Audubon recorded many birds for southern Labrador that are 

 unknown there today. Some of these are now more northern, others 

 more southern in their distribution. In the case of some of the fly- 

 catchers and other poorly marked birds it is probable that he was 



