IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



and yet I have found the Shore Lark (Alauda 

 alpestris) in beautiful summer plumage." He 

 is continually complaining of the cold — "The 

 weather was so cold that it was painful for me 

 to draw almost the whole day" • — and of the 

 wet and storm and of the desolate character of 

 the country, yet he thoroughly enjoyed it when 

 the sun came forth and warmed his Southern 

 blood. This is shown by the entry in his Jour- 

 nal for July 2. "A beautiful day for Labra- 

 dor. . . . All — all is wonderfully grand, wild 

 — aye, and terrific. And yet how beautiful 

 it is now, when one sees the wild bee, moving 

 from one flower to another in search of food, 

 which doubtless is as sweet to it as the es- 

 sence of the magnolia is to those of favored 

 Louisiana." 



The next day, however, "We had a regular 

 stiff gale from the eastward the whole day, 

 accompanied with rain and cold weather, and 

 the water so rough that I could not go ashore 

 to get plants to draw." His hands were full 

 of work in this place, as water- and land- birds 

 abounded a.nd he was delighted at procuring 

 some ptarmigan and young. On July 6 he 

 says: "By dint of hard work and rising at 



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