368 FEATHERED GAME 
forebreast, the ends almost meeting on the 
back, this stripe also black-bordered. Some lit- 
tle white on the scapulars; iris red-brown; feet 
dull blue with dusky webs; bill greenish. 
The female is considerably smaller than her 
mate and somewhat different in her markings; 
more brownish in her tones and lighter and 
grayer below. Bill, feet and iris as in the male 
bird. Length of male from fifteen to seventeen 
inches; extent from twenty-four to twenty- 
seven; female somewhat less than these meas- 
urements. 
THE LABRADOR DUCK. 
(Camptolaimus labradorius.) 
There is small likelihood of the gunner’s 
meeting this bird, either in New England’s 
waters or elsewhere outside a few great mu- 
seums, but on the slight chance that it still sur- 
vives and may happen to be taken, and in order 
that our list of seafowl may be complete it is 
here described. 
There is much reason to believe that the spe- 
cies is extinct, at least there is no record of its 
capture in many years. If a specimen should 
