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Mr. William Brewster has two specimens of the 
L abrador Duck in his collection at Cambridge, Mass., 
and we presume that there are more to hear from. 
o &0. XIV. Apr. 1889 p.63 
Brief Notes. 
X. Vickery, who called a few days since, 
related the circumstance of selling a Labrador j 
Duck a few years ago lor a mere song. He did 
not know what the bird was at the time. 
O.fc O.VaL17,May 1892 p. 79 
The Labrador Duck. 
The specimen that was advertised a short 
time since in the O. & O. has been sold and as 
we predicted went into a European collection. 
It created quite an interest among our sub- 
scribers and we regret that we are not 
authorized to announce the purchaser. It is 
h^tto^' 
menca. 
Vol.17, 
July, 1892 p.ilO 
General Notes. 
An Additional Specimen of the Labrador Duck. — The Academy of 
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia was recently presented with the natural 
history collections of the late George W. Carpenter of that city. The 
collections, which included a great number of mounted birds, were 
arranged in a separate museum building on the grounds of the Carpenter 
estate at Mt.. Airy near Philadelphia, which forty or fifty years ago was 
one of the most famous private museums in the State and was visited by 
Mr. Audubon and other naturalists of note. 
Upon examining the birds contained in the collection in May of the 
present year, preparatory to having them removed to the Academy, I was 
delighted to discover an adult male of the Labrador Duck {Camfitola imus 
Icibradorius ) in a very good state of preservation. The bird was unfortu- 
nately without any label except a number referring to a catalogue which 
had been lost some years ago, and I was unable to obtain any information 
whatever concerning its capture. 
This specimen (No. 30,245, coll. A. N. S. Phila.) is evidently additional 
to those enumerated in Mr. Dutcher’s recent paper (Auk, VIII, p. 201), 
and together with the specimen recorded in ‘The Auk’ for October, 1892, 
(IX, 389) brings the whole number of known specimens up to forty. 
The Philadelphia Academy has now a very fair representation of this 
species, as it previously possessed a female and two voung males. — 
Witmer Stone , Philadelphia, Pa. Auk X.0C>t, 1893 p 303 
