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youucr, but one was a young albino Scoter and the other I did not 

 know. Not many years ago it was a common bird all along our 

 coast, from Delaware to Labrador; and in the New York market 

 there would at times be dozens of them ; aud then for a few years 

 not one. It would be very interesting to know where they have 

 gone. Though so much has been learned of the distribution, 

 summer aud winter homes of birds within a few years, their 

 breeding habits, line of travel north and south, aud from the 

 numerous collectors who have gone to Labrador, the fur countries 

 and across the continent; yet not one word is said about the 

 Labrador duck, a common bird a few years ago. So good a flyer and 

 diver cannot be extinct like the clumsy Alca impennis (Great Auk), 

 and any collector who may take a full-plumaged bird, or knows 

 where they have gone, by letting it be known in the Naturalist, 

 Avould interest many of its readers. American Naturalist, volume 

 3, page 383. 



I had sent me (shot in this neighborhood) a good specimen of 

 the Black Vulture {Cathartes atratus), the first one I ever knew 

 so far east; aud also a fine specimen of the Purple Gallinule, 

 GalUnula wiarJintca. American Naturalist, volume 3, page 498. 



Mr. G. A. Boardman of Calais, Me., writes that he found 

 several flocks of the Ring-neck Duck {Fulix collaris) breeding on 

 the river, near Calais, the past season and that he secured the old 

 and " chicks." He states that he knows of no other instance of 

 this duck breeding iu New Englaud. American Naturalist, 

 volume 5, page 121. 



I found a mocking bird {Minus polyglottus) iu the woods up 

 the river this past season. This is the first time the bird has been 

 found in Maine, to my knowledge, and I think it could not have 

 been an escaped cage bird. American Naturalist, volume 5, 

 page 121. 



I received in November last a very pretty black specimen of 

 the Sciurus Hudsonius and also a pure white specimen of the same 

 species. American Naturalist, volume 5, page 121. 



Mr. G. A. Boardman of Calais, Me., writes us that he has a 

 Florida Gallinule {GalUnula yaleata) that was shot near Calais 



