SEA DUCKS 



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Camptorhynchus labra= 

 dorius 



(Gr., 



flexible, beak). 



DUCK: PIED 



{Gmd.) 



LABRADOR 

 DUCK. Ad. a" — Bill black; orange 

 at the base; widened toward the end 

 by a flexible, leathery expansion. 

 Plumage as shown. Ad. 9 — Brown- 

 ish-gray; a white speculum and white 

 axillars and linings of wings. Iris 

 brown and feet gray as in the male. 

 L., 19.00; W., 9.00; T., 3.50; B., 1.75. 



Range — Formerly North Atlantic 

 coasts; supposed to have bred in 

 Labrador. Wintered from Nova 

 Scotia to N. J. Now extinct, the last 

 specimen having been taken about 

 the year 1875. 



always seem to be gabbling with one another; hence the 

 names "Old-wive" and Old-squaw. 



HARLEQUIN DUCKS are quite remarkable in the fan- 

 tastic dress of the males and because of the unusual locahties 

 that they like to frequent during summer. They apparently 

 nest earher than most ducks, during March or April, at 

 which time more than one pair are rarely seen together. 

 They repair to swiftly moving streams, even more turbulent 

 than those selected by Barrow's Golden-eyes, where the 

 female deposits six or eight greenish-buff eggs in a cavity 

 of a stump, in a hollow in the bank or even on the ground, well 

 concealed under vegetation. In the United States, they 

 breed only along the dashing torrents so abundant in the 

 Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains. The ducklings, as well 

 as the adults, are very agile in the waters, going through 

 seemingly impassable rapids and tumbling over cascades. 



In winter, they migrate but little south of their summer 

 quarters — not at all if the season proves to be an open one. 

 At this time they may be found in greater or less numbers off 



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