TOWNSEND AND ALLEN: LABRADOE BIRDS. 4] 3 



for a few moments he repeated the performance and we watched him 

 go up four or five times. On one occasion he was twenty seconds 

 going up, emitting his refrain forty-eight times. In the descent he 

 was quicker, accomplishing it in ten seconds and singing thirty-two 

 bars of his song. Most of the birds had stopped singing by the middle 

 of July, but we occasionally heard a rapid repetition of the call notes 

 tsSe-ket, suggestive of a Barn Swallow and almost forming a song. 



[Troglodytes aedon Vieill. House Wren. — There is no record for this 

 bird in Labrador except this sentence of Nuttall: "Its northern migrations 

 extend to Labrador.'' For this there is no real foundation.] 



Olbiorchilus hiemalis (Vieill.). 



Winter Wren. 



Uncommon summer resident in southern Labrador. 



Macoun says it is not rare at Lake Mistassini. Audubon saw the 

 bird in southern Labrador on July 20th. "They leave Labrador by 

 the middle of August at the latest." Frazar said it was "not common, 

 though regularly heard in the thick woods about Esquimaux Point." 



Sitta canadensis Linn. 



Red-breasted Nuthatch. 



Uncommon summer resident in southern Labrador. 



Audubon "saw.... only one in Labrador, which had probably 

 been blown thither by a gale." Frazar "saw several broods with 

 their parents at Esquimaux Point the first week of September." Pal- 

 mer says: "I captured a young bird with a dip-net, on board, when 

 about 12 miles south of Natashquan Point, Labrador, on August 9." 



We heard one in a small grove of spruces near Indian Cove at Cape 

 Charles on July 30th. 



Parus atricapillus Linn. 



Chickadee. 



Not uncommon summer resident in southern Labrador. 



The records for this species are very few. J. M. Macoun found it 



