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falls. It was not that I loved fishing less, but 

 birds more, and there have been so few who 

 have studied the birds of this region. Warblers 

 were common: black and white, Tennessee, yel- 

 low, magnolia, black-poll, and yellow palm, a 

 water-thrush, and a few redstarts. A yellow- 

 bellied flycatcher gave his soft double whistle 

 and an olive-sided flycatcher repeated vocif- 

 erously, what-cheer. By the optimistic hunter 

 this is rendered, three deer. Three years ago I 

 had found the olive-sided flycatcher some fifty 

 miles in the interior in the valley of the Nat- 

 ashquan River. With this exception the only 

 previous record for the Labrador Peninsula is 

 that of Audubon, who found it there in 1833. 

 The absence of the black-throated green war- 

 bler interested me. This is a common bird with 

 us in New England whose song. Hear me, St. 

 Theresa, coming from the tops of pines is a 

 familiar one to bird-lovers. In the spring mi- 

 gration of 1906 I found this bird abundant 

 along the southern Labrador coast, and in the 

 summer of 1909 it was the most common war- 

 bler in the spruce forests of the interior in the 

 lower valley of the Natashquan River. Now 

 on this trip in the height of the breeding- 

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