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No. 7.— BIRDS OF LABRADOR. 

 BY CHARLES W. TOWNSEND, M. D., AND GLOVER M. ALLEN. 



Introduction. 



The birds of Labrador have been studied by a number of observers 

 and several lists, mostly partial, have been published. The most 

 extensive of these appeared in 1891, published by Professor A. S. 

 Packard. This list of 208 species was originally prepared by L. M. 

 Turner in 1885 and wag brought down to date by Dr. J. A. Allen. 

 • Our own studies of the avifauna of this interesting region include 

 a review of all the literature on the subject we have been able to find, 

 and a visit to the Labrador coast in the summer of 1906. Although 

 this visit was brief, we feel that we have obtained an idea of this 

 region which our previous reading was unable to supply, and also that 

 we have settled the status of the Horned Lark in Labrador, and 

 cleared up the erroneous ideas that previously prevailed owing to the 

 lack of definite information and extreme paucity of specimens. The 

 study of this question was' one of the chief objects of our trip. We 

 were also fortunate in being able to make detailed observations on 

 the interesting flight song of the American Pipit and the Horned 

 Lark. 



Our itinerary was as follows: crossing the Straits of Belle Isle 

 from the Newfoundland coast in the mail steamship Home on July 

 10, 1906, we skirted the southern coast of Labrador from Blanc Sab- 

 Ion eastward, stopping at a few places and reaching Battle Harbor 

 on the next day. Here we spent four days and explored Battle and 

 Great Caribou Islands and also sailed in a small boat up St. Lewis 

 Inlet to Mary Harbor where we spent a day and a night. From 

 Battle Harbor we sailed on the Virginia Lake on July 15th to Nain 

 which we reached on July 21st, and' returned to Battle Harbor on 

 July 26th. On the way north we dropped anchor at forty-five dif- 

 ferent ports of call and at about the same number on the return. We 

 went ashore at as many of these places as possible, spending from 

 fifteen minutes to three quarters of an hour at most of them, but 

 having over an hour at Cartwright, and a whole day at Rigolet and 

 again at Long Tickle. Even during the short stays we endeavored 



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