. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE LABRADOR JOURNAL 425 of the adult s season has lat the first f-coverts and :ied the beau- hese parts; a robably never surprising to ' every living egetable. In Dirds hatched, ion in flocks, ; the country. ;d millions of cross immense ind times more n to people, as iliven it by the two months at ^em to abandon is beautiful, ago the whole ked in ice, the ich in growth, fill the air, the \ appearance as ill is over; the intain summits; )ays themselves cover all these ing state, nay, Wonderful! must be left to ringa mar
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Zoology; Oiseaux; Zoologie. THE LABRADOR JOURNAL 425 of the adult s season has lat the first f-coverts and :ied the beau- hese parts; a robably never surprising to ' every living egetable. In Dirds hatched, ion in flocks, ; the country. ;d millions of cross immense ind times more n to people, as iliven it by the two months at ^em to abandon is beautiful, ago the whole ked in ice, the ich in growth, fill the air, the \ appearance as ill is over; the intain summits; )ays themselves cover all these ing state, nay, Wonderful! must be left to ringa maritmO'^ h. la) maritima. — 'E"^-. and Tringa pusilla^ were both shot in numbers this day; the young are now as large as the old, and we see little flock'' everywhere. We heard the " Gulnare" was at Bonne Esp^rance, twenty miles west of us; I wish she was here, I should much like to see her officers again. August 5. This has been a fine day, no hurricane. I have finished two Labrador Curlews, but not the ground. A few Curlews were shot, and a Blark-breasted Plover. John shot a Shore Lark that had almost completed its moult; it appears to me that northern birds come to maturity sooner than southern ones, yet the reverse is the case in our own species. Birds of the Tringa kind are constantly passing over our heads in small bodies bound westward, some of the same species which I observed in the Floridas in October. The migration of birds is per- haps much more wonderful than that of fishes, almost all of which go feeling their way along the shores and return to the very same river, creek, or even hole to deposit their spawn, as birds do to their former nest; but the latter do not feel their way, but launching high in air go at once and correctly too, across vast tracts of country, yet at once stopping in portions heretofore their own, and of which they know by previous experiences the comforts and advantages. We have had several arrivals of ves- sels, some so heavil
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