OF NORTH AMERICA. on 
29. LABRADOR DUCK. PIED DUCK. 
Camptolaimus labradorius. 
Former habitat Atlantic coast, breeding 
from Labrador northward, descending in 
winter southward to the Chesapeake. The 
adult male, a rather large duck, is in general, 
black, head and upper neck white, with a strip 
of black on the crown and around the neck; 
wings pied with black and white. Length 
about 20 inches. Extent about 30 inches. 
Weight nearly 2 lbs. Female is a sort of 
dappled dark gray, ighter on the wings. 
This bird is now nearly extinct if not quite 
so, but only forty years ago they were onsale 
in our markets, and there is a bare chance that 
another may yet be taken. Strange as it may 
seem, this bird has disappeared during that 
space of time, and now bids fair to follow in 
the footsteps of the Great Auk. The main 
opportunity of securing one more of these 
birds (there are only 38 in existence, and 
these are valued at about %500 each), seems 
to be either in finding one among the treas- 
ured trophies of some coast gunner of the 
north, or that one may yet be “taken among 
the flocks which come down our coast in the 
winter, and this note is written in the hopes 
that gunners will heed the universal cry and 
look out for them. 
