Dwight, u miner i3 irde of 
Prince Edward Island. 
Cepphus grylle. Black Guillemot. — The ‘Sea Pigeons’ used to breed 
in gieat numbers in the clifis at various points along the coast. I have no 
doubt that they still do so in smaller numbers, although the only positive 
evidence I have is the fact that I saw a dozen or more of the birds about a 
cliff near New London on the north shore of the island, and-heard the 
young ‘squealing’ in inaccessible crevices. This cliff, extending for 
perhaps half a mile, is probably the highest on the island, and is almost 
sheer to the water seventy or eighty feet below. No beach here intervenes 
between its base and the waves which in times of storm beat so fiercely 
against it that it is justly dreaded by mariners as one of the most danger¬ 
ous spots on the north shore of the island. Its crumbling face, to the very 
brink of which the green fields above extend, affords ledges and seams 
where the ‘Sea Pigeons’find secure nesting places, and are said to be 
“plenty.” I devoted only one day to exploring this locality and did not 
see many birds. They were in small parties or pairs, floating upon or 
skimming over the water, or quietly sitting upon some ledge, the white 
wing-patch conspicuous against the red background of rock as viewed 
from a boat. Their black bodies were comparatively inconspicuous owing 
to shadows. At Tignish a boy told me he had found a nest the previous 
year in the low bluffs of the north shore, and I think they may breed in the 
high cliffs southwest of North Cape, although I could not make thorough 
seaich. I also saw a pair at East Point where again are high cliffs, sixty 
feet or more in height. 
Auk X, Jan, 1893. p. U~7~ 
Birds of N.E. coast of Labrador 
by Henry B. Bigelow . 
4 . Cepphus grylle. Black Guillemot; Pigeon. — The Black Guille¬ 
mots were, with one exception, the most numerous of all the sea fowl. 
They still breed in great abundance on almost all the suitable islands, and 
are killed in great numbers for food. I was unable to discover any trace 
whatever of Mandt’s Guillemot, although Turner reports it “abundant” 
on the east coast. 
Auk, XIX, Jan., 1902, p.26. 
1 Read before the Nuttall Ornithological Club, December 4, 1905. rAuk 
172 2 Auk, Vol. IV, 1887, p. 13. LApril 
3 Auk, Vol. VIII, 1891, p. 164, and Vol. XII, 1895, p. 89. 
4 From Blomidon to Smoky. Boston, 1894. 
NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND. 1 
BY CHARLES W. TOWNSEND, M. D. 
The following notes on the birds of Cape Breton were made 
during a visit to that island between the 17th of August and the 
5th of September, 1905. This region has already been visited in 
summer and its birds noted by Dr. J. Dwight, Jr., 2 F. H. Allen, 3 
and the late Frank Bolles. 4 Dr. Dwight and Mr. Allen confined 
their observations to the Bras d’Or region. 
My own trip was by water to the island and through the Bras d’Or 
Lakes, and on foot from South Gut near Baddeck, “down north” 
as far as Neil’s Harbor; also by boat from Ingonish to Sydney, 
and up the Myra River, with a drive through the eastern part of 
the island. 
Ninety-eight different species of birds were noted; a number of 
which at this late date were of course migrants. The following 
twenty-one species may be added to the lists above referred to. 
Cepphus grylle. Black Guillemot. — Common along the 
shore from Englishtown to Neil’s Harbor. Aj*-. 
