368 THE ZOOLOGY OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



The bones of the walrus were in late years still to be 

 found on the shores of the Magdalen Islands, its former 

 great abundance there having been commented on by 

 Cartier and Charlevoix. According to tradition, it also 

 inhabited some of the harbors of Cape Breton ; and I 

 have been informed by a Maine fisherman, that on an 

 islet near Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, the bones of an 

 enormous seal-like creature are to be found in the sand 

 near the shore, fifteen to twenty feet above the sea. The 

 last one seen or heard of in the Gulf, so far as I could 

 ascertain, was killed at St. Augustine, Labrador, about 

 the year 1840. One was seen at Square Island in 1849, 

 and two shortly before that, and another was killed at 

 the same place about the year 1855. In 1864 I saw the 

 head of a young walrus, which was found floating dead 

 in the drift ice north of Belle Isle, having been killed 

 apparently by a harpoon. Mr. Stearns states that two 

 were shot in 1880 and 1881 at Fox Harbor, St. Lewis 

 Sound, off shore a little way. 



The following lists, with the remarks appended, will 

 give in a methodical way what little is really known of 

 the zoology of the Labra.dor coast, beginning with the 

 animals of the lowest classes and ascending to the high- 

 est. The lists are printed rather for the benefit of the 

 scientific than the general reader. It maybe mentioned 

 that a few species of sponges were collected, but not 

 identified. 



CCELENTERATES. (Polyps, Hydroids, etc.) 



Metridium marginatum Edw. & H. From Indian 

 Harbor southward, below low-tide. 



Urticina crassicornis Ehr. From Square Island 

 southward ; i-io f. 



