. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. "v. W\ THE LABRADOR JOURNAL 4IS ang to and ;o the gun- gs for bait. a mile from hundreds of )W jokes and gentry. On small Gulls, ,estns of two as breakfast it Mr. Jones, here. He re- :otiaman, the rave John and )ur or five spe- -glacialis} ^\i^ others breed in the rivers, and lich everywhere ohn and Cool- .ed-poUs, Fnn- [raw to-morrow. Europe? Their ight that of the [were as large as , they resort to â ooks; the hunt- it also Savannah They saw a fine |ray as the last; and bushes, and iot, they were so rhich at sigh
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. "v. W\ THE LABRADOR JOURNAL 4IS ang to and ;o the gun- gs for bait. a mile from hundreds of )W jokes and gentry. On small Gulls, ,estns of two as breakfast it Mr. Jones, here. He re- :otiaman, the rave John and )ur or five spe- -glacialis} ^\i^ others breed in the rivers, and lich everywhere ohn and Cool- .ed-poUs, Fnn- [raw to-morrow. Europe? Their ight that of the [were as large as , they resort to â ooks; the hunt- it also Savannah They saw a fine |ray as the last; and bushes, and iot, they were so rhich at sight of land flew far; on I Duck. â E. C. being started again, flew again to a great distance with a loud, cackling note, but no whirr of the wings. They were within three hundred yards of an Eagle, which, from its dark color and enormous size and extent of wings, they took to be a female Washington Eagle.* I have made many inquiries, but every one tells me Eagles are most rare. It sailed away over the hills slowly ard like a Vul- ture. After drawing two figures of the female White- winged Crossbill, I paid a visit to the country seat of Mr. Jones.' The snow is still to be seen in patches on every hill around us; the borders of the water courses are edged with grasses and weeds as rank of growth as may be seen in the Middle States in like situations. I saw a small brook filled with fine trout; but what pleased me best, I found a nest of the Shore Lark; it was embedded in moss so much the color of the birds, that when these sit on it, it is next to impossible to observe them; it was buried to its full depth, about seven inches, â composed outwardly of mosses of different sorts; within, fine grass circularly arranged, and mixed with many large, soft Duck feathers. These birds breed on high table-lands, one pair to a cer- tain district. The place where I found the nest was so arid, poor and rocky that nothing grew there. We see the high mountains of Newfoundland, the summit
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