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Summer Birds of the Forillon, Gaspé County, Quebec

1938; Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club; Volume: 52; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5962/p.340059

0008-3550

Stanley C. Ball,

Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

lying south of the wide lower portion of the St. Lawrence River, terminates in a slender needle-like process, famous to geologists for its eastern-most mainland extension of the Appalachian Mountains and for the fossils embedded in its strata.In his book, The Heart of Gaspé, Dr. John M. Clarke has urged the use of its old name, Forillon, for this tiny peninsula.It joins the higher land in the main part of Gaspé peninsula on a line between Cap des Rosiers on the St. Lawrence and Little Gaspé on the Bay of Gaspé.Mount St. Alban (1170 feet) and several neighbouring prominences of similar height occupy this region about a mile west of .