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December, 1839 ; but no information concerning its history could be obtained, 

 further than that it was shot in the neighbourhood of Great Egg Harbour, 

 New Jersey. The stomach contained small broken shells. 



" Specific Characters. — Speculum and throat white ; bill expanded and 

 tumid ; teeth remarkably developed ; plumage dark grey, inclining to fuscous. 



" Female uniform greyish ash.'' . . , 



Description of both sexes follows ; the only thing especially worth 

 noting is, ^Hhe labyrynth [sic'] of the male is large" (p. 171). 



Between pp. 170 and 171 is inserted a slip of paper : — 

 '' S° Since writing the within I have discovered that this bird is the 

 young of the labradora in a plumage heretofore undescribed or figured ; which 

 circumstance is sufficient to render it interesting to the naturalist. — G. C. L." 



Thomas Nuttall says, in his ' Manual of Ornithology ' (edit. 1834, vol. ii. 

 p. 428) :— 



" The Pied Duck, though an inhabitant of the northern parts of America, 

 is not found in the fur-countries of Hudson's Bay. It is probably a mere 

 straggler on the coasts of the whole Atlantic, and chiefly inhabits the western 

 side of the continent," &c. &c. 



The above statements of course require no refutation to any one who 

 reads those of other writers quoted in this article. This author evidently 

 does not know much about the species. 



In his grand work on the Geographical Distribution of Animals, 

 Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace states (vol. ii. p. 39) :— 



" The only case of discontinuous distribution we can find recorded, is 

 that of the genus of Ducks Camptolcemus, which has a species on the east 

 side of North America and another in Chili and the Falkland Islands ; but 

 these. Professor Newton assures me, do not properly belong to the same 

 genus." 



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