THE PIED DUCK 



{CAMPTOLAIMUS LABRADORIUS) 



A LTHOUGH the Pied Duck was so well known 

 to American naturalists, and once so common 

 that examples were, according to the testimony of 

 Audubon, Wilson, and other writers, frequently 

 sold in the markets of New York and Baltimore, 

 there are not half as many specimens in scien- 

 tific cabinets and collections as of the Great Auk. 

 According to Professor Newton, the last example 

 was obtained in Halifax harbour in the autumn of 

 1852 ; this specimen was, we believe, until recently 

 in the collection of Canon Tristram, but may now 

 be in the Derby Museum at Liverpool. On the 

 other hand, Mr. Lucas states that no example has 

 been taken since December 1878 ; but as neither 

 this nor others said to have been obtained between 

 the years 1857 and 1871 appear to be in existence, 

 they cannot well be adduced as evidence. The 



extinction of the Pied Duck may not have been so 



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