21 A. DuTCHER o» the Labrador Duck. [April 



Collection of the llniversity of Vermont, 



Burlington, Vt. Adult $ i 



Collection of Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S. '' J' i 



" 9 I 



Total in Canada .... . . 3 



Total known in North Avici'ica ... 27 



l^otal ktiown in Europe . . . . . 11 



Total knozvn ....... 38 



The Covert specimen, mentioned in the Rowley List, is not 

 included in the above Revised List, as there are very good 

 -easons for doubting its validity. 



Specimens Recorded and since Lost. 



"•William Winton, of ITalifox, obtained a male in the market. 

 He gave his specimen to me ; I gave it to George A. Boardman." 

 — Andrew Downs.* 



"I ol)tained an old skin from Mr. Downs of Halifax but it was 

 so eaten liy mice and moths that it was destroyed." — George A. 

 Boardman. 



"I received a 9 from Mr. Cheney, that had been shot in April, 

 1 87 1. — Harold Herrick.I 



"The last one I know to have been taken was shot by S. F. 

 Cheney, at Grand Manan, in April, 1S71. It was given to Harold 

 Herrick, wlio subsequentlv gave me the skin. I sent it to John 

 Wallace, of New York to be mounted for Prof. S. F. Baird of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Not knowing its value, Wallace let some 

 one get the skin from him and it was thus lost to the Smithsonian, 

 as he could not tell who had it." — George A. Boardman. 



"The female Labrador Duck I gave to Mr. Herrick was with 

 some Old Squaws or Long-tailed Ducks when I shot it, and I 

 think there were no others of the kind with it. This one had 



*Trans. of the Nova Scotian Inst, of Nat. Sci., Vol. VI, p. 327. 



tA Partial Catalogue of the Birds of Grand Manan, Nba' Brunswick. Bull. Essex 

 Inst., Vol. V, Nos. 2 and 3, 1873. 



