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NEW-YORK FAUNA BIRDS. 
THE PIED DUCK. 
Fuligula labradora. 
PLATE CXVI. FIG. 258. 
(STATE COLLECTION. Cabinet of the Lyceum.) 
Anas labradora, Gm. Pennant, Arct. Zool. Vol. 2, p. 559. Wilson, Am. Orn. Vol. 8, p. 91, pi. 69, fig. 6 (male). 
Fuligula id. Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. Vol. 2, p. 391. Audubon, B. of Am. Vol. 6, p. 329, pi. 400 (male 
and female). Nuttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 2, p. 428. Camplorhytichus, Bonaparte, Comp. List. 
F. grisea. Leib, Ac. Sc. Vol. 8, p. 170 (young). 
Characteristics. Mirror white and broad. Bill membranous at tip ; the cere-like base and 
posterior margins orange. Male: head, neck, breast, scapulars, wing- 
coverts and secondaries white ; crown, collar, and all the remaining 
parts black. Female, slate grey ; sides of the forehead white. Length, 
19'0. 
Description. Bill broad, robust, rather wider than broad at the base, 1 ■ 6 in length, and 
not as long as the head: edges of the upper mandible soft, and turned over; the tip finely 
denticulate: lamellar teeth of the lower mandible largest. A distinct furrow surrounds the 
nostrils, and terminates in a point in the centre of the upper mandible. Tarsus 1‘5 long; 
nails acute and recurved. Tail pointed, of sixteen acuminated feathers. Sides of the face 
and auriculars with yellowish bristly feathers. 
Color. Male: Base of the bill pale orange; the remainder black. Irides hazel. Feet 
light bluish, with darker webs. An elongated black stripe on the crown and hind head. 
Rump and upper tail-coverts black, finely sprinkled with grey. Beneath brown, passing into 
black with age. On the lower part of the neck is a black ring, dilated behind, and uniting 
below with the black of the back : the black of the lower parts rises high up on the breast. 
Upper wing-coverts and secondaries white: quills brownish black. Tail-feathers, with the 
shafts, brownish black. Female: Head, chin and neck ashy grey ; above slate blue : secon¬ 
daries only white. Young, a crescent-like band of cream-color beneath and behind the eye ; 
plumage grey, inclining to fuscous. 
Length, 18'0-20'0. 
This Duck, well known on this coast under the name of Skunk-head, and Sand-shoal Duck 
on the coast of New-Jersey, is not, however, very abundant. It presents characters which 
unquestionably form the type of a new group, and which has been furnished with an appro¬ 
priate name by the Prince of Canino. It may possibly breed in high northern latitudes on 
the western shores of America, but this has not yet been confirmed. On the Atlantic coast, it 
has been noticed from Labrador to the Chesapeake bay. Its history incomplete, but as far 
as known, it is peculiar to America. 
