Sex, 
Number. 
Strickland Collection, Cambridge . o 
Obtained by Mr. H. E. Strickland, from his relation, Mr. Arthur Strickland, in 1850, in full plumage 
and good condition. Nothing more is known about it. 
Col. Wedderburn’s Collection & 
Shot by him, in 1852, in Halifax Harbor. Sternum in Cambridge Museum. 
Leyden Museum ................. $ -2 
Were obtained in 1863. The name put to them is “Prince of Neuwied.” 
Berlin Museum ................. (?) 
Paris Museum d’Historre Naturelle .............. S' 
Presented, in 1810, by Mr. Hyde; feet somewhat decayed. 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
America. 
Prof Baird's List. 
American Museum, Central Park, New York ..... 
<$ adult, from the Wied Collection — Labrador.” 
$ adult, from Mr. Elliot’s Collection, Long Island, New York. 
/S !,,,, a it it u u tt 
6 JllV., 
£ adult, “ " 
Collection of Mr. George N. Lawrence ...... 
$ adult, obtained about 1842, Long Island, New York. 
2 adult, 
£ juv., obtained about 1865. 
Long Island Historical Society ........ 
£ adult, 1842, Long Island, New York. 
Collection of Dr. Aiken ......... 
£ juv., obtained within a few years from Long Island, New York. 
Poughkeepsie, New York, — Vassar College ..... 
£ adult, from collection of Mr, J. P. Giraud, Long Island. 
£ adult, “ 
Albany, New York, — : State Collection ...... 
$ adult, Long Island, New York. 
Burlington (Vermont University) ....... 
$ adult, Long Island. 
£ adult, 
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences ..... 
Washington: Smithsonian Institute ....... 
$, from Long Island. 
£ and £, from Mr. Audubon's Collection. Locality unknown. 
Collection of Mr. William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass, 
Collection of Mr. Charles B. Cory, Boston, Mass. .... 
Total ......... 
a a, £ juv., 5 4 
. $ 2 , £ juv. 3 
$ 1 
-S' juv. I 
££ 2 
$ 1 
$ £ 2 
$ £ 2 
• S££ 3 
£ 1 
S£ 2 
33 
Adult male. — Head, neck, upper breast, and wing surface, including scapulars, wing coverts, and secondaries, white; 
a collar around the neck, and a stripe extending from the forehead along the top of the head to the base of the skull, black; 
rest of plumage, including upper back, primaries, and underparts, black; legs and toes ashy; webs black; terminal half of 
bill, black; basal half, pale orange, the latter color extending along the edges of the mandibles for two thirds the length of 
the bill ; iris, dark hazel. 
Adult female. — General plumage, brownish ash, with a bluish tinge on the feathers of the back and wing coverts; 
secondaries, white, forming a wing band ; tertiaries, ashy, edged with black ; bill and feet as in the male. 
Length about 19; wing 8.25; tail 245; tarsus 1.95; bill 1.45. 
The specimens figured in the plate are a male and female in my collection. 
