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times a gentle little note like ee-ep was emitted. The birds frequently 

 swam about gracefully, nodding their heads like doves. Once or 

 twice they stopped to scratch their heads with a- foot, again they would 

 circle about quickly on the water, or they would swim forward and 

 continue their progression by walking up onto a rock. Among the 

 reeds they skilfully threaded their way, bending low their heads. 



[Philohela minor (Gmel.). American Woodcock. — Turner ('85) was 

 assured by several persons " that they had killed Woodcocks on the eastern 

 portions of the Labrador shore" but we know of no more positive evidence 

 that the bird actually occurs there.] 



Gallinago delicata (Ord). 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Rare summer resident. 



Wilson's Snipe probably breeds sparingly in suitable localities 

 throughout Labrador. Turner "heard and saw a male making the 

 peculiar noise with its wings, in early June, over a swamp to the north 

 of Davidson's Lake, a few miles from Fort Chimo," Ungava. Low 

 also saw and heard a male performing its flight song at Lake Petit- 

 sikapau, on the Hamilton River, on June 28th; Macoun records a 

 bird with a young brood in July, 1896, seen at Great Whale River, 

 Hudson Bay, by Spreadborough. Turner also says that specimens 

 were procured at Rupert House on June 15, 1860. Coues met with 

 the bird but once on the southeast coast and Bigelow saw three or 

 four near Cape St. Francis. 



Cartwright records seeing on September 10, 1772, a snipe "which 

 is the first I have seen in this country"; again on September 19, 1775, 

 he says: "Saw a snipe; which is the second that I have seen in the 

 country." This was in Sandwich Bay; the first near Cape Charles. 



[Gallinago major (Gmel.). Greater Snipe. — Coues called attention to the 

 specimen of this species from Hudson Bay in the collection of the British 

 museum but there is nothing to show whether or not it came from the Labrador 

 side of Hudson Bay.] 



