PIED, OR LABRADOR DUCK.—DOWNS. 327 
says they were not uncommon then. Of their particular 
manners, place, or mode of breeding, nothingis known. Latham 
observes, that a pair in the possession of Sir Joseph Banks were 
brought from Labrador in 1840, William Winton, of Halifax, 
and Capt. Waderburn, of the 42nd, Highland Regt., (stationed at 
Halifax,) each obtained a male in the market. Winton gave his 
specimen to me; I gave it to George A. Boardman, of St. Stephen, 
N. B., who had one already among his collection. Mr. Corre, of » 
Boston, gave him $200 for them. I saw a male at the Brown 
Museum at Liverpool, England; it belonged to the late Earl of 
Derby’s collection. This bird now, like the Dodo and Great 
Auk, has become extinet. I think the Dalhousie Museum very 
fortunate in possessing a male and female of this rare duck. I 
do not know of another female in existence. I hope the Mac- 
Culloch collection will be a foundation for a museum in the new 
college. I have been a close observer of the birds of this pro- 
vince for 63 years, and I have never seen this bird, other than 
- in the specimen given me by Winton, in the flesh. Professor 
Baird, and other American naturalists, are now trying to 
obtain all the information they can about this bird. 
