. Bird life in Labrador [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. vm Bird-Life in Labrador. of the re;?ioa. I now propose to briefly examine critically the claims of species from other knowa sources than my own, to a place in the avi-fauna of Labrador. Havin;; studied diligently all the sources ot information that could be obtained, I have come to the decision, carefully weighed, that Au- dubon is both father and son in the history of Labrador birds. That is, he |i;ave us our first real knowledge of the birds of this region, and lew facts new to science have been added, or old facts corrected, since bis ti
. Bird life in Labrador [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. vm Bird-Life in Labrador. of the re;?ioa. I now propose to briefly examine critically the claims of species from other knowa sources than my own, to a place in the avi-fauna of Labrador. Havin;; studied diligently all the sources ot information that could be obtained, I have come to the decision, carefully weighed, that Au- dubon is both father and son in the history of Labrador birds. That is, he |i;ave us our first real knowledge of the birds of this region, and lew facts new to science have been added, or old facts corrected, since bis time. Even my own sketches are, in the main, mere reproductions of what he had so graphically previously given to the world; they could not well be otherwise. This does not necessarily lay me open to the charge of plagiarism, any more than it might some other man who wrote of the birds of a region ot which someboly else had written before him: for nothing is farther from my thoughts than to try to steal another man's literary labors. AuHEHST, Mass., May, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-1909. [S. l. : s. n. ]
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