426 Dr, A, Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



Dorsal aspect. Whole head and two-thirds the neck rich ches? 

 nut, with a reddish iridescence ; remainder of neck and commence? 

 ment of back, with the shoulders, black ; intersoapulary region, 

 rump, and short scapulars, finely zigzag waved with clove brown 

 on a white ground ; inner long scapulars grey, with a reddish iri- 

 descence ; outer margin of the external long scapulars black ; 

 tail coverts blackish brown ; tail hoary greyish ; wing co- 



verts grey, faintly sprinkled wiih white; primaries pale grey, 

 tipped with clove brown, which is also the colour of the outer 

 vane of the two first primaries ; speculum whitish grey, fringed 

 with white inferiorly. 



Ventral aspect. Chin and throat like the dorsal aspect ; re- 

 mainder of the throat and breast black, fringed with white as it 

 approaches the belly ; belly pure white ; vent white glossed with 

 chesnut, and with faint wavy lines of grey ; tail feathers brownish 

 black; sides and flanks waved with clove brown on a white 

 ground. 



1st primary longest; length 21J inches; alar expanse 30j 

 inches ; length of bill from the frontal feathers 2 inches 1 line. 

 The bill of this bird is recurved. 



The female is liver brown, with pale edgings, and the chesnut 

 of the head is margined with yellowish brown. The white of the 

 ventral aspect is tinted with grey. 



A, Labradorica, Labrador duck. 

 Fuligula Labradorica. Anderson ! 

 Camptolcemus Labradorus. Gmel. ! Gray ! Baird ! 

 v.s.p. Cire flesh colour ; remainder of bill blackish horn 

 colour ; tarsi and irides yellow. 



Dorsal aspect. With the exception of a streak of black stretch- 

 ing from the base of the bill to the occiput, and a very light 

 brown streaky stain stretching from the cire to below the ear, 

 all the rest of the head, with the secondaries, pure white; re- 

 mainder of the back black; tail, which is rather acuminately 

 rounded, blackish brown ; the distal third of the outer edge of 

 the outer scapulars coloured with black, and the whole of the 

 inner vanes of the inner half dusky, terminating in blackish, 

 giving to the under surface of the wing a dusky appearance ; the 

 primaries are all dusky black ; the feathers on the cheek have a 

 bristly feel ; in other parts of the head and neck the feathers have 

 a velvety feel, a good deal resembling that of the Great Northern 

 Diver. 



