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fine summers, but in the interior or in the warmer central districts it 

 attains to the 62d degree. Mr. Hutchins mentions, as a remarkable 

 occurrence, that a flock of these Pigeons visited York Factory and 

 remained two days." Low's record is: "Very rare. Eggs obtained 

 at Fort George, 1887." 



Cartwright on August 22, 1775, in Sandwich Bay enters in his 

 journal this note: "Near the mouth of the brook we saw a pair of 

 doves, and I killed one with my rifle; it was much like a turtle dove 

 and fed on the berries of the Empetrum nigrum. I never heard of 

 such a bird in the country before, and I believe they are very scarce." 

 These may have been either Passenger Pigeons or Mourning Doves. 



Zenaidura macroura (Linn.). 



Mourning Dove. 



Accidental visitor. 



There is only one record, that of Norton: " A badly mutilated speci- 

 men. . . . taken at Red Bay, Labrador, September 7," 1898, by the 

 Bowdoin college expedition. 



Cathartes aura (Linn.). 



Turkey Vulture. 



Accidental visitor. 



We are enabled to add this species to the list of Labrador birds, 

 having received a letter under date of November 18, 1906, from Mr. 

 Ernest Doane of West St. Modest to the effect that a Turkey Vulture 

 was caught in a fox trap at that place on November 10, 1906. 



Circus hudsonius (Linn.). 



Marsh Hawk. 



Very rare summer visitor in southern Labrador. 

 Audubon says: "I have met with it in Newfoundland and Labra- 

 dor." Stearns obtained one specimen at Dead Island Harbor. 



