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Dutcher on the Labrador Duck. 
TAuk 
L Jan. 
THE LABRADOR DUCK — ANOTHER SPECIMEN, 
. WITH ADDITIONAL DATA RESPECTING 
EXTANT SPECIMENS. 1 
BY WILLIAM DUTCHER. 
Mr. Ernest D. Wintle, of Montreal, Canada, a member 
of the Union, reports a heretofore unrecorded specimen of the 
Ladrador Duck in the Museum of the Natural History Society of 
Montreal. It is a male in immature plumage, and was evidently 
mounted from a dried skin ; it bears no date or record as to 
whence it was obtained. He has searched through the Journals 
of the Society from the beginning to date and cannot find any 
mention of the specimen therein, and no person connected with 
the Society seems to know anything about it. 
Phis is the third specimen discovered since the publication of 
my ‘Revised List,’ 2 and makes the known specimens in America 
twenty-nine, and the total number extant forty-one. 
A less pleasant duty than the recording of a newly discovered 
specimen of this extinct species now devolves upon me. I would 
gladly escape the responsibility, but justice to the ornithologists 
whom I quoted in my former paper, and also to myself, compels 
the following remarks. Prof. Alfred Newton, in his 4 Diction- 
ary of Birds,’ pp. 221-223, makes the following statement under 
the subject ‘Extermination.’ 
“Far less commonly known, but apparently quite as certain, 
is the doom of a large Duck which until 1S42 or thereabouts was 
commonly found in summer about the mouth of the St. Lawrence 
and the coast of Labrador, migrating in winter to the shores of 
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New England, and perhaps 
further southward. There is no proof, according to the best- 
inlormed American ornithologists, of a single example being 
met with for many years past in any of the markets of the United 
States, where formerly it was not at all uncommon at the proper 
1 Read at the Eleventh Congress of the American Ornithologists’ Union, held at 
Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 20-23, 1893. 
2 The Auk, Vol. VIII, pp. 201-216, April, 1891. 
