. The Canadian field-naturalist. 198 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. XXXIX. distinguishable, and especially so during the hatching season. At this time the male bird's plumage is very sleek and orderly, while the female has a rather bedraggled look, since she plucks most of the down and feathers from her breast to line the nest. The voice of the two birds is so different that I usually have no difficulty in dis- tinguishing one from the other, even at a distance. BIRD-BANDING IN TOWNSEND*S LABRADOR By HARRISON F. LEWIS A paper read at the 43rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologist U
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 198 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. XXXIX. distinguishable, and especially so during the hatching season. At this time the male bird's plumage is very sleek and orderly, while the female has a rather bedraggled look, since she plucks most of the down and feathers from her breast to line the nest. The voice of the two birds is so different that I usually have no difficulty in dis- tinguishing one from the other, even at a distance. BIRD-BANDING IN TOWNSEND*S LABRADOR By HARRISON F. LEWIS A paper read at the 43rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologist Union, New York, Nov. 10-12, 1925 I N 1915, that well-known and enthusiastic bird-bander. Dr. Charles W. Townsend, of Boston, sailed in a small schooner along the southern shore of the Labrador Peninsula from Natashquan to Bradore, investi- gating the fauna and flora of that little-known region, questioning and photographing the natives, and bathing daily in the icy waters of the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. In attaining the objects of his journey he did not hesitate to navigate the narrow channels among the islands and to pene- trate to the inner recesses of the bays, and he has pubHshed a dehghtful and well-illustrated record of his labors. From this we learn that he it was who inaugurated bird-banding on this coast by banding a number of young Great Black-backed Gulls, fiom which at least one return record was obtained. We consider that this alone—for it was an epoch-making event, as all bird-banders will agree—fully justifies the term, "Townsend's Labrador", which appears in the title of this paper, and which may be expected to supplant the older term, "Audubon's Labrador", because Audubon failed to band any birds here and didn't like the place, anyway. It has fallen to our lot to continue the work which Dr. Townsend so nobly began, and some of the most interesting features of it will be described forthwith. This is partly because every bird- bander
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