IN AUDUBON'S LABRADOR 



spot three closely related sparrows, — mem- 

 bers of the same genus, — ■ the song, swamp, 

 and Lincoln's sparrows. 



The next day I explored three miles to the 

 eastward, to Anse Eclair. On my way back, 

 I startled a pair of snipe, which rose uttering 

 rough scaips, flew slowly a few yards with dan- 

 gling legs, and dropped again into the grass. 

 One of these I flushed again, and this time it 

 dropped on mossy ground, where it lay on its 

 side and fluttered its wings as if wounded. 

 Young birds were doubtless concealed in the 

 grass. 



The following day I tramped seven or eight 

 miles to the westward, to Long Point and 

 Bradore. From Mr. Morrell's fishing-room the 

 path leads up over the old terraces and sea- 

 beaches with occasional sand-dunes. The fog 

 shut in so that I had no distant views, but 

 near at hand there was plenty of interest 

 — ornithological, botanical, and geological — 

 which gave me food for thought. In Shaler's 

 Autobiography the following lines by his wife 

 should apply to all naturalists: "It was im- 

 possible for one to be bored who sought, as he 

 did, an explanation of the world about him. 

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