BIRDS FULIGULINAE — CAMPTOLAEMUS LABKADOEIUS. 803 



LAMPKONETTA FISCHEEI, Brandt. 



Spectacled Eider. 



LamproneUa fischeri, Brandt, M6m. Acad. St. Petersburg, 6th series; So. Nat. VI, 1849, 10, pi. 1 (?. (Probably 



published in 1847.) 

 Arctondta fischeri, Gray, Pr. Zool. Soo. 1855, 212; pi. cviii, J, Q, and young c?. 

 Sp. Ch. — A large sub-circular or sub-quadrangular black outline around the eye, sending a short branch backwards; the space 

 thus enclosed white tinged with reddish. Feathers about the base of bill tinged with greenish. The space between the black 

 outlines above, their lower border, and the entire occiput and nape, green. Chin, throat, lower neck, fore part of back, wing 

 coverts, tertials, and a patch each side of the rump, white. Under parts generally, rump, tail, and primary quills, black; 

 bill yellow. 



Female brown, with dull dusky blotches or bars. 'Chin and throat whitish. White eye patch of the male obscurely indicated. 

 Length 21.20 inches ; wing, 10 inches?; tarsus, 1.70; commissure, 2.20. 

 Sab. — Norton sound, Russian America, 634 N. L. 



This fine duck is only known from tlie descriptions and figures of Brandt and Gray, 

 mentioned above. All the specimens obtained were found at Norton Sound, Russian America, 

 latitude 63^°, and doubtless in severe winters the species will be found on our own coast. 



CAMPTOLAEMUS, Gray. 



Kamptorhynchus, Etton, Mon. Anat. 1838. Not of Cuvier. Type Anas labradora, 6m. 



Gamplolaemm, Gray, List Genera, 1841. Same type. 

 Ch. — Bill broad, with the edges nearly parallel, but widening towards the tip, this expansion consisting of a tough membrane. 

 Nostrils in the basal third of the bill as measured from the upper posterior angle. Feathers of cheek extending moderately 

 forwards, convex anteriorly; those of chin reaching about as far. Bill nearly as long as the head, and considerably exceeding 

 the tarsus. Feathers of cheeks stiffened and rigid. Tertials straight. Tail rather pointed. 



The single species of this remarkable genus is almost entirely black and white in its colors. 

 CAMPTOLAEMUS LABRADORIUS, G-ray. 



Iiabrador Duck. 



Anas labradoria, Gmelib, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 557. — Lath. Ind. II, 1790, 859. 



Anas labradora, Wilson, Am. Orn. VIII, 1814, 91; pi. Ixix. 



Anas {Fuligulay-labradora, Bon. Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 276. 



Fuligvla labradora, Bon Syn. 1828, 391.— Nutt. Man. II, 428.— Add. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 271 ; pi. 333.— Ib. Syn. 



288.— Ib. Birds Am. VI, 1843, 329; pi. 400. 

 Rhynchaspis labradora, Stephens, Shaw's Zool. XII, 1824, 121. 

 Oamptorhynchus labradorius, Eyton, Mon. Anat. 1838, 151. — Bon. List. 

 Camptolaemm labradorius, Gray, List Genera, 1841. 

 Fuligida grisea, Leib, J. A. N. Sc. Phil. VIII, 1840, 170. Young. 

 Pied dvdc, Penn. II, 594. 

 Sp. Ch. — Bill black ; yellowish along the base and a little in front of nostrils. Central line along the vertex, a ring around 

 the lower part of the neck, extended broadly behind and above along the median line, and then continuous with the interscapular 

 region, lower part of back and rump, with the entire under parts and sides, black. Head and neck, a half collar below the 

 black ring, and the sides of the jugulum, scapulars, axillars, and entire wing on both sides, excepting the primaries, white; the 

 primaries plumbeous black. The scapulars and tertials tinged with lead gray on some of the inner webs, the tertials externally 

 margined narrowly with black. 



Female entirely plumbeous gray ; more dusky beneath. Wing without white on the upper coverts and scapulars ; the tertials 

 hoary plumbeous. 

 Length, 23.75 ; wing, 8.80; tarsus, 1.60; commissure, 2.50. 

 Ilab. — Northeastern coast of North America. 



