AMERICAN HARBOR, OR NATASHQUAN 



Natashquan, " I heard a Wood Pewee," he had 

 in reality heard this bird. In fact, the yellow- 

 belHed flycatcher, a bird of about the same 

 size and appearance as the wood pewee, but 

 with a faint tinge of yellow below, was not 

 recognized till some years later by Baird, and 

 the wood pewee is not known to extend so far 

 north as Labrador. It is interesting to note 

 that seven years after Audubon's visit to 

 Labrador he received a modest letter from 

 Baird, then a young man, describing this fly- 

 catcher, and venturing to think it was a new 

 species. With this thought Audubon at once 

 acquiesced. 



I could delay for hours on the ornithologi- 

 cal interest of this walk, and the reader may 

 wish that the mosquitoes had got the better 

 of me; I cannot, however, refrain from speak- 

 ing of the Tennessee warbler, a bird appar- 

 ently overlooked by Audubon in these regions. 

 In his "Birds of America" he says of this 

 species, "Of its migrations or place of breed- 

 ing I know nothing." Its song was sufficiently 

 common along the coast, but in former trips 

 I had caught but fleeting visions of the bird, 

 which, like Lincoln's sparrow, was more often 



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