APPENDIX .-(F.) 
THE LAKE HURON SCOTER t 
Canard Francaise; Canard d^Hiver. Supposed nondescript. 
In this appendix I propose to lay before my readers, both 
sporting and scientific, the particulars under which I became ac¬ 
quainted with a species of Duck, which I am fully satisfied in my 
own mind is a nondescript, so far, at least, as this continent is 
concerned ; with a brief account of its characteristics, habits, and 
places of habitation, so far as I have been able to ascertain them. 
It is not described or figured by Audubon, nor does it in any 
wise resemble any of the Ducks alluded to in his great work. 
Wilson has it not. No specimen of any fowl which assimilates 
to it is contained in the magnificent collection of the Lyceum of 
Natural History at Philadelphia, confessedly the second or third 
for completeness in the world, except, perhaps, an unnamed Duck 
brought by Mr. Bell, the celebrated Taxidermist, from Califor¬ 
nia, which, however, differs from mine in several respects. 
I had, unfortunately, no preparations with me when this Duck 
was taken, by which I could preserve the skin, but I immediate¬ 
ly took accurate measure of the bird, and drew up a close generic 
account of its peculiarities, after doing which I made finished draw¬ 
ings from the dead specimen, which are now before me—one of the 
head and neck, the size of life by measure, and the other of the 
entire bird, one third natural size. 
The circumstances of my first seeing the bird are these : being 
on a visit to my brother, Lieut. F. C. Herbert, R. N., then com¬ 
manding H. M. Steam Vessel Mohawk, on the Great Northern 
Lakes, in the Autumn of 1849, I was standing with him on the 
