2o8 DuTCHER on tke Labrador Duck. [April 



Ann. Rept., p. 30, 1S4S. I think this latter specimen ninst be 

 the female allnded to above, and as it was in the collection in 

 1S48, only five years after the publication of De Kay's Birds, I 

 think he must have referred to this specimen when he ([noted the 

 State Collection (Birds, p. 326)." — Wili.iam B. Marshall, 

 Ass't Zoologist. 



Collection of Mr. Charles B . Cory., Boston., Mass. 



$ adult and ^ adult. "I have only two in my private col- 

 lection, an adult ^ and 9 1 i" full plumage. They weie killed 

 somewhere between 1S57 ^md '60, and were in George A. Board- 

 man's collection, and were sold to me, by him, some ten years 

 since." — C. B. Cory. 



" I sold my Labrador Ducks to Mr. C. B. Cory. They were 

 shot at Grand Manan a good many years ago, when they were 

 not considered very rare or of much importance. I think thev 

 were sent to me by Mr. Isaac Newton, in the spring." — George 



A. BOAKDMAN. 



Collection of tJic University of Vertnotit., Bjtrlington., Ver- 

 mont. 



$ adult. — In the Rowley List this collection is credited with 

 two specimens, both from Long Island. Mr. G. H. Perkins, 

 Professor of Natural History in the Vermont University, has fur- 

 nished the following information regarding the specimens of this 

 species in their collection : " The Museum of the University has 

 not a pair of Labrador Ducks, but only the male, a very fine and 

 well mounted specimen. It came in a collection made by a gen- 

 tleman in New York, through Prof. S. F. Baird. I have searched 

 all the documents in existence concerning the Labrador Duck and 

 what I find is a Smithsonian Check List headed by a note in 

 Professor Baird's handwriting : ' A List of Birds in collection of 

 Ed. Dunham, purchased for University of Vermont.' On this list 

 the species are checked and sex and age noted. The ' male 

 adult ' is the only note against the Labrador Duck, and I think 

 this was all that was included in the list and the only specimen 

 we ever had. How we were credited with a pair I do not under- 

 stand. Professor Baird told me once that most of our birds were 

 collected on Long Island, but where this particular species was 

 taken I do not know. In general I understand that all ducks in 

 this collection, not otherwise named, are from Long Island." 



