TO THE STAETING-POINT 



limit on the southern coast of this bird of the 

 Hudsonian and sub-Arctic zones. 



Fortunately for me the Sea Star was de- 

 layed by calms and easterly winds, so I spent 

 five delightful days at Bay Johan Beetz. Many 

 hours were taken up with the study of the 

 splendid collection of the birds of the neigh- 

 borhood which M. Beetz had prepared, and I 

 found in it no less than six species new to the 

 list of birds previously recorded from the Lab- 

 rador Peninsula. These were Kumlien's gull, 

 European widgeon, lesser scaup duck, kildeer 

 plover, red-winged blackbird, and eave swal- 

 low. All were stragglers to this remote region, 

 although Kumlien's gull must be of common 

 occurrence on the eastern coast. 



One day we went in canoes up the river sal- 

 mon-fishing, but although I succeeded in hook- 

 ing a large fish, the temptation to follow up 

 the bird-voices I could hear in the distance was 

 too much for me. 



"Herkneth these blisful briddes how they singe 

 ' Ful is mine herte of revel and solas." 



I left my host in his canoe to catch four twen- 

 ty-pounders, while I was paddled up the beau- 

 tiful stream to the old Indian portage at the 

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