290 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
of his son, John Woodhouse Audubon, Dr. George C. Shattuck 
and William Ingalls of Boston, Thomas Lincoln of Dennisville, 
Maine, and Joseph Coolidge. They sailed through the Strait of 
Canso, visited the Magdalen Islands, and passed Bird Rock, white 
as snow with Gannets. The Ripley came to anchor in American 
Harbor, Labrador, near the mouth of the Natashquan River, on June 
17th. From this point they cruised easterly along the southern 
coast of Labrador, touching at Little Mecatine, Baie de Portage, 
and Bras d’ Or. They spent nearly two months in Labrador and 
sailed for home on August 11, 1833. 
Audubon’s southern blood was chilled by the rough climate, and 
his spirits were depressed by the ruggedness and desolation of the 
scenery. He accomplished an immense amount of work, however, 
rising at three o’clock, and drawing often for seventeen hours almost 
continuously in the crowded, wet, and usually very unsteady cabin. 
Here he was •obliged to protect his work from the water which dropped 
from the rigging, as there was no window to the cabin and the only 
light was admitted through the hatches. He was often wet to the 
skin, chilled by the cold, pestered by the innumerable flies and mos¬ 
quitoes, frequently seasick and worn by the long hours without sleep. 
He attributes his fatigue to none of these, but exclaims: “No! No! 
It is that I am no longer young.” He found the sea birds breeding 
in great numbers on the islands, observed the actions of the piratical 
“eggers,” and witnessed the great flight of Eskimo Curlew. He 
added a new species to science in the Lincoln’s Sparrow, named by 
him after his young companion, Tom Lincoln. 
His “Journal” states that “twenty-three drawings have been 
executed, or commenced and nearly completed.” Among these are 
the drawings of the Loon, Puffin, Pomarine Jaeger, Arctic Tern, 
Gannet, Common Cormorant, Eskimo Curlew, Willow Ptarmigan, 
Labrador Gyrfalcon, Horned Lark, White-winged Crossbill, Redpoll, 
Lincoln’s Sparrow, Pipit, Hudsonian Chickadee, and Ruby-crowned 
Kinglet. Seventy-three bird skins were prepared, mostly by his son 
John. Besides the plates, the results of this Labrador trip are given 
in frequent references in Audubon’s written works. 
Audubon recorded many birds for southern Labrador that are 
unknown there today. Some of these are now more northern, others 
more southern in their distribution. In the case of some of the Hv- 
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catchers and other poorly marked birds it is probable that he was 
