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Title: Feathered game of the Northeast
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Rich, Walter Herbert, 1866-
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, T.Y. Crowell & Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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down on the 368 FEATHERED GAME forebreast, the ends almost meeting on theback, this stripe also black-bordered. Some lit-tle white on the scapulars; iris red-brown; feetdull blue with dusky webs; bill greenish. The female is considerably smaller than hermate and somewhat different in her markings;more brownish in her tones and lighter andgrayer below. Bill, feet and iris as in the malebird. Length of male from fifteen to seventeeninches; extent from twenty-four to twenty-seven; female somewhat less than these meas-urements. THE LABRADOR DUCK. (Camptolaimus labradorius.) There is small likelihood of the gunnersmeeting this bird, either in New Englandswaters or elsewhere outside a few great mu-seums, but on the slight chance that it still sur-vives and may happen to be taken, and in orderthat our list of seafowl may be complete it ishere described. There is much reason to believe that the spe-cies is extinct, at least there is no record of itscapture in many years. If a specimen should
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, u , D i^ QIX 1*^ O s Q< ^ ca ^ < -J THE LABRADOE DUCK 369 be taken the lucky gunner would find it themost profitable bit of seafowl shooting of hiscareer, for he might command his own pricefor the prize. I think the last recorded speci-men, as published by the Auk, the officialjournal of the American Ornithologists Union,was one taken at Grand Menan Island in 1871-There are very few specimens in collections(some forty in this country and perhaps twentyacross the water) and it is probable that thesewill always be highly prized, the value of eachbird increasing every year. Very few can behad at any price. The figure paid at the lastsale of which I knew was $1,000 per duck. Cast in the heavy ponderous mould of theseaduck, short of wing, slow and heavy in flight,and comparatively clumsy in model, the birdbears some resemblance to the eiders both inshape and markings. As it was fitted out withall the advantages possessed by the coots andeiders, it is hard to see why the race should

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