IN AUDUBON'S LABEADOR 



Island, near Blanc Sablon, the breeding-place 

 then as now of puffins or perroquets. 



In great spirits he enters in his Journal on 

 the same date the following: "Who, now, will 

 deny the existence of the Labrador Falcon? 

 [Black or Labrador gyrfalcon.] ^ Yes, my Lucy, 

 one more new species is on the list of the ' Birds 

 of America,' and may we have the comfort of 

 seeing its beautiful figure multiplied by Hav- 

 ell's engraver. This bird (both male and fe- 

 male) was shot by John whilst on an excur- 

 sion with all our party, and on the 6th inst., 

 when I sat till after twelve o'clock that night 

 to outline one of them to save daylight the 

 next day to color it, as I have done hundreds 

 of times before." While at Bradore, the party 

 visited Blanc Sablon, and some of the young 

 men walked as far east as Forteau, which he 

 enters in his Journal as Port Eau. 



On August II they put to sea, — "Seldom 

 in my life have I left a country with as little 

 regret as I do this "; and two days later they 



* In the original plates the black gyrfalcon, called obsoletus 

 by Gmelin in 1788, is figured, while in The Birds of America, 

 although the details of the capture of the birds in Labrador 

 are given, the bird, is described and figured as the Iceland 

 gyrfalcon. 



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