IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



later it came in regular beats while the bird 

 soared in circles or headed into the wind. It 

 was interrupted while he flapped his wings 

 and got his breath. It was a squeaky, jingly, 

 metallic song, abounding in high notes and 

 fine trills, not a very polished musical perform- 

 ance, but sufficiently pleasing and decidedly 

 interesting. Often it was impossible to find 

 the bird from whom came the tinkling shower 

 of melody, and one would catch sight of it 

 only as it came plunging headlong to earth as 

 silent as it rose. In fogs it was always a case 

 of "vox, et prater ea nihil" 



In 1909 Mr. Bent and I had found a breed- 

 ing pair of homed larks at Natashquan, but 

 it is doubtful if they breed regularly to the 

 westward of this. The prairie horned lark 

 breeds about Quebec, but how far beyond the 

 Saguenay to the eastward it extends its range 

 I do not know. There is a long forested shore 

 between the Saguenay and Natashquan, and 

 it is unlikely that horned larks breed regu- 

 larly in this intervening space. 



The botanist was in his element, but rather 

 low in his mind on account of the embarras des 

 richesses. He had not let the grass grow under 



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