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young of the Tawny Thrush were seen with the mother, 

 almost full-grown. All the party are very tired, especially 

 Ingalls, who was swamped up to his arm-pits and was 

 pulled out by his two companions ; tired as they are, they 

 have yet energy to eat tremendously. 



July 21. I write now from a harbor which has no name, 

 for we have mistaken it for the right one, which lies two 

 miles east of this; but it matters little, for the coast of 

 Labrador is all alike comfortless, cold and foggy, yet 

 grand. We left Little Macatine at five this morning, 

 with a stiff southwest breeze, and by ten our anchor was 

 dropped here. We passed Captain Bayfield and his two 

 boats engaged in the survey of the coast. We have been 

 on shore ; no birds but about a hundred Eider Ducks and 

 Red-breasted Mergansers in the inner bay, with their broods 

 all affrighted as our boats approached. Returning on 

 board, found Captain Bayfield and his lieutenants, who 

 remained to dine with us. They were short of provisions, 

 and we gave them a barrel of ship-bread, and seventy 

 pounds of beef. I presented the captain with a ham, 

 with which he went off to their camp on some rocks not 

 far distant. This evening we paid him a visit; he and his 

 men are encamped in great comfort. The tea-things were 

 yet arranged on the iron-bound bed, the trunks served as 

 seats, and the sail-cloth clothes-bags as pillows. The moss 

 was covered with a large tarred cloth, and neither wind 

 nor damp was admitted. I gazed on the camp with much 

 pleasure, and it was a great enjoyment to be with men of 

 education and refined manners, such as are these officers of 

 the Royal Navy ; it was indeed a treat. We talked of the 

 country where we were, of the beings best fitted to live and 

 prosper here, not only of our species, but of all species, 



with the common Wood Pewee, Contopus virens, and with the Pewit Fly- 

 catcher, Sayornis phcebe. We can hardly imagine him mistaken regarding 

 the identity of either of these familiar birds ; yet there is something about 

 this Labrador record of supposed C. richardsoni which has never been 

 satisfactorily explained. — E. C 



