418 AJfATID^. 



surface, except laterally and auteriorly, more greyish ; breast and 

 sides dusted with whitish points ; the black collar composed of soft 

 velvety feathers ; on the anterior part of the cheeks a patch of stiff 

 feathers : scapulars and tertials edged with black : " bill with the 

 basal space between the nostrils, running into a rounded point in 

 the middle, pale greyish 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 greyish 

 blue ; web and claws dusky " (Audubon) ; " cere flesh-colour, 

 remainder of the bill blackish horn-colour ; tarsi and irides yellow" 

 (Hall). Total length about 22 inches, wing 8-75, tail 3-3, culmen 

 1*7, tarsus 1*5. 



Adult female. Uniform brownish grey, the wing-coverts with 

 dark mesial lines ; wing-speculum formed by the secondaries and 

 by the greater wing-coverts white ; tertials edged with blackish ; 

 primaries dusky. Total length about 18 inches, wing 8-4, tail 3, 

 culmen 1"65, tarsus 1-4. 



Young male. " Similar to adult female, but chin and throat white, 

 and the white of the chest strongly indicated ; greater wing-coverts 

 white " (Midgway). 



A specimen in the Eothschild collection, marked as young male, is 

 similar to the adult female : general plumage greyish brown ; head 

 and neck with indistinct undulated dusky cross-lines ; chin and 

 throat dull white, sharply defined; lower breast slightly tinged 

 with black ; speculum white ; longer scapulars and tertials silvery 

 grey, the latter edged with dusky on the outer web ; tail brown- 

 grey ; quills brown. 



It is supposed that the Labrador Duck is now nearly, if not quite, 

 extinct ; the specimens known in Museums are 41. 



Hab. Formerly northern Atlantic coast of North America, south 

 in winter to Long Island, New Jersey, and the Great Lakes. 



a. c? ad. sk. N. America. Hudson Bay Co. [P.]. 



b. 2 ^d. sk. Labrador. Purchased. 



52. HENICONETTA. 



Type. 

 Macropus (subgen.), Nutt. Man. ii. p. 451 (1834) (nee 



Spiv, 1824) H. steUeri. 



Polysticta, Et/t. Cat. Brit. B. p. 58 (1836) {nee PoU- 



sticte, Smith, 1835) H. stelleri. 



Stellaria (et-rore), Bp. Comp. List, p. 57 (1838) (nee 



Mailer, 1832) H. stelleri. 



Eniconetta, G. M. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 75 (1840) H. stelleri. 



Stelleria, Bp. Cat. Met. Ucc. Eur. p. 74, gen. 232 



(1842) H. stelleri. 



Heniconetta, Agass. Lnd, Univ. Nam. Zool. p. 178 



(1846). 



Range. Confined to the Arctic regions. 



