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[234] This is the bird figured by Audubon as _Falco labradora_ on folio pl. 196, 8vo pl. 19, but which he afterward considered to be the same as his _F. islandicus_. It is now held, however, to represent a dark variety of Gyrfalcon, known as _F. gyrfalco obsoletus_, confined to Labrador and thence southward in winter to New England and New York.--E. C.

[235] Sheep laurel.

[236] See Episode, "A Ball in Newfoundland."

[237] Dr. George Parkman, of Boston, who was murdered by Professor J. W. Webster in Boston, November 23, 1849.

[238] See Episode, "The Bay of Fundy."

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