ftaWL' (IastscIoj J/mfco d cir'tlcu 
g)'^' fyCtylscX* . 
To these causes I attribute Mr. 
Downs obtaining in the year 1850, three 
specimens of the Labrador Dupk, the last 
ones seen here ; nor have I seen any men- 
tion in any periodical of them since, though 
common in Wilson's time and known by 
the gunners of Ehode Island in 1830. 
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IWZ. 
Another Specimen of the Labrador Duck. —As an addition to Mr. 
Dutchers list of specimens of Camptolaimus labradorius present in other 
collections (see ‘The Auk. i 8 gi, p. 201), I beg to state that the Dresden 
Museum possesses a female example, as to the history of which, however, 
r am only able to say that it was in Dresden before the year 1850 when 
Reichenbach published a figure of it in his ‘Handbuch der speciellen Or- 
nithologie : Natatores.’ It has all the appearance of an antique specimen, 
and, that it is so, is further shown by the handwriting on the old label, 
according to which it came from Labrador. — A. B. Meyer, M. D. 
Dresden, Saxony. 
An k IX, Oct, 1892. p.889 
General Notes. 
In Re Dutcher on the Labrador Duck. — Fearing that my statement in 
the January ‘Auk,’ p. 11, lines 1 and 2, — “D. M. Cole and his associate, 
Mr. Cary, saw a female duck with a brood of young which he was sure 
was this species,” — may give a wrong impression, notwithstanding the 
conclusion stated at the close of the paragraph, I now state that the bird 
seen was not a Labrador Duck. Mr. Cole has recently visited Cambridge, 
and through the courtesy of Mr. William Brewster was shown his speci- 
mens of the Labrador as well as other specimens of Ducks, and after a 
careful study of them, aided by Mr. Brewster, concludes that the bird he 
saw on the Grand River was a female of the genus Glaucionetta , — 
Golden-eye. — William Dutcher, New York City. 
Auk XI. April. 1894 p. 176-76 
