THE LABRADOR JOURNAL 40S 



wore thick mittens and very heavy clothing, I felt chilly 

 with the cold. John's violin notes carry my thoughts far, 

 far from Labrador, I assure thee. 



July 20. Labrador deserves credit for one fine day ! 

 To-day has been calm, warm, and actually such a day as 

 one might expect in the Middle States about the month of 

 May. I drew from half-past three till ten this morning. 

 The young men went off early, and the captain and myself 

 went to the island next to us, but saw few birds : a Brown 

 Lark, some Gulls, and the two White-crowned Buntings. 

 In some small bays which we passed we found the stones 

 thrown up by the sea in immense numbers, and of enormous 

 size. These stones I now think are probably brought on 

 shore in the masses of ice during the winter storms. These 

 icebergs, then melting and breaking up, leave these enor- 

 mous pebble-shaped stones, from ten to one hundred feet 

 deep. When I returned to my drawing the captain went 

 fishing, and caught thirty-seven cod in less than an hour. 

 The wind rose towards evening, and the boats did not get 

 in till nine o'clock, and much anxiety did I feel about 

 them. Coolidge is an excellent sailor, and John too, for 

 that matter, but very venturesome ; and Lincoln equally so. 

 The chase, as usual, poor; two Canadian Grouse in moult, 

 — these do moult earlier than the Willow Grouse,^ — 

 some White-throated Sparrows, Yellow-rump Warblers, the 

 Green Black-cap Flycatcher, the small Wood Pewee (?). 

 I think this a new species, but cannot swear to it.^ The 



1 Or Willow Ptarmigan, Lagofus alius — the same that Audubon has 

 already spoken of procuring and drawing ; but this is the first mention he 

 makes which enables us to judge which of two species occurring in Labrador 

 he had. The other is the Rock Grouse, or Ptarmigan, L. rufestris. — E. C. 



2 This is the bird which Audubon afterward identified with Tyrannula 

 richardsonii of Swainson, Fn., Bor.-Am., ii., 1831, p. 146, pi. 46, lower fig., and 

 published under the name of the Short-legged Pewee or Pewit Fly-catcher, 

 Muscicapa phcebe, in Orn. Biogr., v. p. 299, pi. 434 ; B. Am., 8vo ed., 1. p. 

 219, pi. 61. The species is now well known as the Western Wood Pewee, 

 Contopus richardsoni ; but it has never since Audubon's time been authen- 

 ticated as a bird of Labrador. Audubon was of course perfectly familiar 



