An Ornithologist’s Summer in Labrador 
M. Abbott Prazar. 
Lagopus albus, Willow Ptarmigan. In sum- 
‘ mer this bird seems to retreat to the interior to 
breed, and visits the coast regularly every win- 
ter. The preceding winter they were unusually 
; abundant about Esquimaux Point, far more so 
' than usual. People killed them in their yards, 
! on their doorsteps and about everywhere. Two 
! Indians I saw were said to have killed over 
eight hundred during the winter. But from 
, all the evidence I could gather, this unusual 
flight did not extend much to the eastward of 
’ idusquarro ; the natives recognize this as the 
White Partridge. Another species which is 
found about Cape Whittle in winter and which 
they call the Mountain Partridge, is a smaller 
bird and is said never to get pure white. It is 
a reeognized species by all the inhabitants 
about there and is probably Lagopus welchi, as 
;| Mr. Jones with whom I lived at Cape Whittle, 
I and who was a very reliable man, told me that 
several years before, he was on the shore of the 
! straits one day in early winter, and that flock 
j after flock of these birds were flying in from 
! across the water and that they lit upon the first 
i land they could reach, evidently being greatly 
1 fatigued. 
^ O.&O. XII.Mar.l887.p. 
Biriis of N.E. coast of Labrador 
by Henry B. Bigelow. 
54 . Lagopus albus. Willow Ptarmigan. — Rather common north 
to Nain, beyond which point we did not see it. In some places abundant. 
Auk, XIX, Jan., 1902, p.29. 
Birds of Toronto, Canada, 
by James K. Fleming, 
Part II, Land Birds. 
AuL, .XXIV, Jan., 1907, p.7I. 
116. Lagopus lagopus. Willow Ptarmigan. — A specimen taken 
May 15, 1897, about four miles from Whitby (29 miles east of Toronto), 
is in the collection of Mr. J. H. Ames; ^ there is no question about the 
locality being authentic. An unusually southern migration of Willow 
Ptarmigan took place in the winter of 1896-97, and I recorded them as 
far south as Lake Nipissing." Dr. Wm. Brodie remembers a specimen 
that was taken many years ago in the township of Whitchurch. Ptarmigan 
are referred to as frequent migrants into the townships back of Darlington 
(about 40 miles east of Toronto).'* 
3 Auk, XIV, 1897, 411. 
^ Auk, XVIII, 1901, 37. 
6 Early Settlers of BowmanvlUe, etc. J. T. Coleman, Bowmanville, 1875, 36. 
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