A LABRADOR SPRING 
carefully, are seen to be scarlet, with a steel 
blue base on the lower mandible, a white line 
on the upper and an orange patch at the com- 
misure. There is a curious blue horny spur 
above the eye, and the edges of the eyelid are 
vermilion, while the inside of the mouth is a 
deep gamboge yellow, and the feet are orange 
red. 
Another bird that later in the season laid its 
eggs on this island, one can not say nested, for 
the egg is deposited on the bare rock, was the 
razor-billed auk, and we saw a little company of 
seventeen of these birds flying about the island, 
all that was left of the throngs that bred in that 
region in Audubon’s day. Here the bill is jet 
black ornamented with a curved white line, 
and wonderfully set off, when the bird opens 
its mouth, by the brilliant yellow lining of that 
cavity. The birds were swimming about in 
little bands with their tails cocked up, and were 
evidently discussing matrimonial plans. 
One does not expect to pick up the eggs of 
wood birds at sea, but on our return from Bald 
Island we were obliged to anchor behind Little 
St. Charles Island, where a fishing boat from 
Esquimaux Point had also taken refuge from 
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