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they can at Krider's. Mr. Kerr anil I were shooting Snipe, and while 

 crossing a bottom with weeds all over it and water about fifteen inches 

 deep, I started this Duck from a small pond. It was alone. When I got 

 to where it fell I was struck by its beauty and decided to have it mounted. 

 The bird is mounted in dead game style." According to Mr. Hebard's 

 calculation the bird was killed on February 18, 1893. 



Mr. W. E. D. Scott records in 'The Auk' (Vol. VI, p. 160) specimens 

 of Cinnamon Teal taken at Key West, and Dr. J. A. Allen mentions (Bull. 

 Mus, Comp. Zool., Vol. II, p. 363) on the authority of Mr. Maynard that 

 examples of the same species have been taken on the Indian River. — 

 Samuel N. Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa. 



An Additional Specimen of the Labrador Duck. — The Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was recently presented with the natural 

 history collections of the late George W. Carpenter of that city. The 

 collections, which included a great number of mounted birds, were 

 arranged in a separate museum building on the grounds of the Carpenter 

 estate at Mt. Airy near Philadelphia, which forty or fifty years ago was 

 one of the most famous private museums in the State and was visited by 

 Mr. Audubon and other naturalists of note. 



Upon examining the birds contained in the collection in May of the 

 present year, preparatory to having them removed to the Academy, I was 

 delighted to discover an adult male of the Labrador Duck {Camptolaimus 

 labradorius) in a very good state of preservation. The bird was unfortu- 

 nately without an}' label except a number referring to a catalogue which 

 had been lost some years ago, and I was unable to obtain any information 

 whatever concerning its capture. 



This specimen (No. 30,245, coll. A. N. S. Phila.) is evidently additional 

 to those enumerated in Mr. Dutcher's recent paper (Auk, VIII, p. 201), 

 and together with the specimen recorded in 'The Auk' for October, 1892, 

 (IX, 389) brings the whole number of known specimens up to forty. 



The Philadelphia Academy has now a very fair representation of this 

 species, as it previously possessed a female and two young males. — 

 Witmek Stone, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Capture of Another Ardetta neoxena at Toronto, Ontario. — On May 20, 

 1893, a female Ardetta ?ieoxetia was shot at Toronto Marsh by a fisher- 

 man, named J. Ramsden, and was brought to Mr. Oliver Spanner, taxider- 

 mist, who bought the bird. Mr. Spanner has it mounted, and has 

 furnished me with the following measurements: length, 13^ inches; wing 

 4-i inches ; and informs me that it is a female. 



This is the second specimen taken at Toronto, and makes the eighth 

 specimen known in collections, the other six having been collected in 

 Florida, where its range appears to be very much restricted. The first 

 specimen taken at Toronto was shot on May 18, 1891, and is recorded by 

 Mr. William Cross in the third issue of the 'Proceedings of the Ornitho- 

 logical Subsection of the Canadian Institute,' for 1890-91, page 41. This 



