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Falcon with great fury ; she made for her nest, and when 

 the Falcon saw her alight on the margin of her ledg^e, it 

 flew off. I never thought that such a Hawk could chase 

 with effect so large and so powerful a bird as the Raven. 

 Some of our men who have been aggers and fishermen 

 have seen these Ravens here every season for the last 

 eight or nine years. 



July 16. Another day of dirty weather, and all obliged 

 to remain on board the greater portion of the time. I 

 managed to draw at my Grouse and put in some handsome 

 wild peas, Labrador tea-plant, and also one other plant, un- 

 known to me. This afternoon the young men went off, and 

 the result has been three White-crowned Buntings, and a 

 female Black-capped Warbler. Our captain did much 

 better for me, for in less than an hour he returned on 

 board with thirty fine codfish, some of which we relished 

 well at our supper. This evening the fog is so thick that 

 we cannot see the summit of the rocks around us. The 

 harbor has been full of Gulls the whole day. The captain 

 brought me what he called an Esquimau codfish, which 

 perhaps has never been described, and we have spirited 

 him. We found a new species of floweret of the genus 

 Silene^ but unknown to us. We have now lost four days 

 in succession. 



July 17. The mosquitoes so annoyed me last night 

 that I did not even close my eyes. I tried the deck of the 

 vessel, and though the fog was as thick as fine rain, these 

 insects attacked me by thousands, and I returned below, 

 where I confinued fighting them till daylight, when I had 

 a roaring fire made and got rid of them. The fog has 

 been as thick as ever, and rain has fallen heavily, though 

 the wind is southwest. I have drawn five eggs of land- 

 birds : that of Falco columbarius^ Fringilla leucophyrs^ An- 

 thus spinoletta,^ Sylvia striata^ and Fringilla savannah I 



1 The Catchfly. ^ Pigeon Hawk. ' White-crowned Sparrow. 



* Brown Titlark. ^ Black-poll Warbler. * Savannah Finch. 



