ANATIN^ — THE DUCKS — CAMPTOL^MUS. 



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Camptolaemus . labradorius. 



THE PIED DUCK. 



Anas lahradoria, Gmel. S. K. I. ii. 1788, 537. — Wils. Am. Orn. YIII. 1814, 91, pi. 69. 

 Fulifjula lahradora, Boxap. Syuop. 1828, 391. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 428. — AuD. Orn. Biog. 



IV. 1838, 271, pi. 332 ; Syuop. 1839, 288 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 329, pi. 400. 

 Camptolaimvs lahradorus, Gray, List Gen. 1841. 

 Cam2)toloeimis labradorius, Baikd, B. N". Am. 1858, 803; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 600. — CouES, 



Key, 1872, 291 ; Check List, 1873, no. 509 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 729 ; B. N. W. 1874, 579. — 



RiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 624. 

 Fuligida grisca, Leib, Jour. Pliil. Ac. VIII. 1840, 170 (young). 



Hab. Formerly, northern Atlantic coast of North America, south in winter to New Jersey 

 and New York ; Michigan ? Supposed to be now nearly, if not quite, extinct. 



Sp. Char. Adult male: Head, neck, jugulum, scapulars, and wings (except primaries) white ; 

 longitudinal stripe on the crown and occiput, collar round lower part of neck, back, primaries, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, and entire lower parts black, the tail and lower surface, except 



C. labradorius. 



laterally and anteriorly, decidedly more grayish — almost brownish-slate; the ring round the 

 neck composed of soft velvety feathers, and having a dark brownish-purple tinge. Stiff feathers 

 of the cheeks brownish white ; tertials edged with black. " Bill with the basal space between the 

 nostrils running into a rounded point in the middle, pale grayish blue ; the sides of the base and 

 the edges of both mandibles for two thirds of their length dull pale-orange ; the rest of the bill 

 black. Iris reddish hazel ; feet light grayisli blue, webs and claws dusky" (Audubon). Adult 

 female: Uniform brownish gray, the wings more plumbeous; tertials silvery gray, edged with 

 blackish ; secondaries white ; primaries dusky. Young male : Similar to the adult female, but 

 chin and throat white, and the white of the jugulum strongly indicated ; greater wing-coverts, as 

 well as secondaries, white. Bill as in adult male and female. 



Total length, about 18.00 to 20.00 inches ; extent, 30.00 ; wing, 8.50-8.90 ; culmen, 1.60-1-70 ; 

 width of bill at base, .82-90 ; tarsus, 1.50-1.60 ; middle toe, 2.25-2.40. 



Very little is known as to the history of this Duck. It has always been a some- 

 what rare species on the Atlantic coast, and within the past ten or twelve years its 

 visits have very nearly ceased. Occasional specimens have been taken about the 

 Island of Grand Menan, near Eastport, Me. The last of which we have any record 

 was obtained by Mr. H. Herrick ; it was a female, and had been shot by Mr. Cheney 

 in April, 1871. 



