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for a few moments he repeated the performance and we watched him 
go up four or five times. On one occasion he was twenty seconds 
going up, emitting his refrain forty-eight times. In the descent he 
was quicker, accomplishing it in ten seconds and singing thirty-two 
bars of his song. Most of the birds had stopped singing by the middle 
of July, but we occasionally heard a rapid repetition of the call notes 
tsee-ket, suggestive of a Barn Swallow and almost forming a song. 
[Troglodytes aedon Vieill. House Wren. — There is no record for this 
bird in Labrador except this sentence of Nuttall: “Its northern migrations 
extend to Labrador.” For this there is no real foundation.] 
Olbiorchilus hiemalis (Vieill.). 
Winter Wren. 
Uncommon summer resident in southern Labrador. 
Macoun says it is not rare at Lake Mistassini. Audubon saw the 
bird in southern Labrador on July 20th. “They leave Labrador by 
the middle of August at the latest.” Frazar said it was “not common, 
though regularly heard in the thick woods about Esquimaux Point.” 
Sitta canadensis Linn. 
Red-breasted Nuthatch. 
Uncommon summer resident in southern Labrador. 
Audubon “saw. . . .only one in Labrador, which had probably 
been blown thither by a gale.” Frazar “saw several broods with 
their parents at Esquimaux Point the first week of September.” Pal¬ 
mer says: “I captured a young bird with a dip-net, on board, when 
about 12 miles south of Natashquail Point, Labrador, on August 9.” 
We heard one in a small grove of spruces near Indian Cove at Cape 
Charles on July 30th. 
Parus atricapillus Linn. 
Chickadee. 
Not uncommon summer resident in southern Labrador. 
The records for this species are very few. J. M. Macoun found it 
