Part 43

Cambridge: 1

Dublin: 1 fine mounted (Dr. Scharff in litt.)

Tring: 1 ad., 1 jun. (See below.)

Brussels: 1 ad.

St. Petersburg: 1 ad., purchased from Salmin.

Heine Museum in Germany: 1 poor specimen.

Munich: The Museum possesses a male from the collection of the Duke of Leuchtenberg.

Dresden: 1 and two doubtful eggs--the latter doubtless wrong I should say.

Vienna: 1 ad., exchanged from Baron von Lederer in 1830. Locality New York; 1 [female] ad., bought from Brandt in Hamburg in 1846, for 4 Gulden!

Leiden Museum: [female], from the Prince of Wied.

American Museum, New York: 7, three of which formerly belonged to George N. Lawrence.

Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn: 1 ad.

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. York: 1 ad.

New York State Museum, Albany: [female] ad.

Cory collection: [female] ad.

University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont: 1 ad.

Philadelphia: 2 jun., 1 [female]

U.S. National Museum, Washington: 2 , 1 [female], 1 jun.

Collection of Mr. William Brewster: 1 jun., 1 [female]

Boston Society of Natural History: 1 jun.

Collection of Dalhousie College, Halifax: [female]

This makes a total of 48 known specimens. {107}

The last specimens killed were those shot in May, 1871, at Grand Manan Island, the date of which is absolutely certain, and the specimen bought from a Mr. J. G. Bell in 1879, for the Smithsonian Institution, which is said to have been shot in 1875, but this date seems not quite certain (Cf. Auk, 1894, p. 9). That several other specimens were shot later than 1852 is perfectly certain. As the specimen of 1875, or thereabouts, is a young male, Mr. Lawrence's question about the old birds is certainly justified. As, however, no Labrador Duck has been recorded later than 1871 or 1875 we may suppose that it is now extinct.

My young male was bought in the Fulton Market, New York, about 1860, and probably came from Long Island. It was mounted by John Bell, a bird-stuffer, through whose hands several Labrador Ducks have gone, and is in the finest possible condition. I bought this bird from the late Gordon Plummer, shortly before his death. He died at his home in Brookline, Mass., in November, 1893. (Cf. Auk, 1891, p. 206.)

My adult male is the one of which the history is given in Auk, 1894, p. 176. It is described there in detail and then added: "Shot in the bay of Laprairie this spring (1862) by a habitant, and purchased by Mr. Thompson of this city, who has kindly placed it at my disposal for examination." Mr. William Dutcher of New York City bought this specimen from the widow of the Mr. Thompson, mentioned in the above note as the original owner, and I purchased it from Mr. William Dutcher, who informs me that "the Bay of Laprairie" is simply a name given to a wide part of the River St. Lawrence, just south of Montreal, Quebec. The name is found on good maps of Quebec.

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"BIZIURA LAUTOURI" FORBES.

Biziura lautouri Forbes, Trans. N.Z. Inst. XXIV, p. 188 (1892--nomen nudum).