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times a gentle little note like ee-ep was emitted. The birds frequently 
swam about gracefully, nodding their heads like doves. Once or 
twice they stopped to scratch their heads with a foot, again they would 
circle about quickly on the water, or they would swim forward and 
continue their progression by walking up onto a rock. Among the 
reeds they skilfully threaded their way, bending low their heads. 
[Philohela minor (Gmel.). American Woodcock. — Turner (’85) was 
assured by several persons “that they had killed Woodcocks on the eastern 
portions of the Labrador shore” but we know of no more positive evidence 
that the bird actually occurs there.] 
Gallinago delicata (Ord). 
Wilson’s Snipe. 
Rare summer resident. 
Wilson’s Snipe probably breeds sparingly in suitable localities 
throughout Labrador. Turner “heard and saw a male making the 
peculiar noise with its wings, in early June, over a swamp to the north 
of Davidson’s Lake, a few miles from Fort Chimo,” Ungava. Low 
also saw and heard a male performing its flight song at Lake Petit- 
sikapau, on the Hamilton River, on June 28th; Macoun records a 
bird with a young brood in July, 1896, seen at Great Whale River, 
Hudson Bay, by Spreadborough. Turner also says that specimens 
were procured at Rupert House on June 15, 1860. Coues met with 
the bird but once on the southeast coast and Bigelow saw three or 
four near Cape St. Francis. 
Cartwright records seeing on September 10, 1772, a snipe “which 
is the first I have seen in this country”; again on September 19, 1775, 
he says: “Saw a snipe; which is the second that I have seen in the 
country.” This was in Sandwich Bay; the first near Cape Charles. 
[Gallinago major (Gmel.). Greater Snipe. — Coues called attention to the 
specimen of this species from Hudson Bay in the collection of the British 
museum but there is nothing to show whether or not it came from the Labrador 
side of Hudson Bay.] 
