CAMPTOLiEMUS LABRADORIUS : LABRADOR DUCK. 32 1 



head, white, with a black collar and lengthwise coronal stripe. 

 Female plumbeous gray. About 2 feet long; extent, 32.50; 

 wing, g.oo. 



One of the earliest notices of this rather celebrated 

 duck, a portrait of which adorns the title-page of Pen- 

 nant's Arctic Zoology, published in 1785, speaks of it 



Fig. 68. — Labrador Duck. 



as having been sent from Connecticut to Mrs. Black- 

 burn, an English lady best known to our ornithologists 

 by the association of her name with one of our most 

 beautiful Warblers. The Duck appears to have formerly 

 been a common bird, but it has become exceedingly 

 rare, and the species is supposed to be near extinction. 



