. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Labrador Due (ainptorhyiichus labra- This bird, whose range was from Labrador to New Jersey in the winter,has probably been extinct since 1875, when the last authentic capture wasmade. It is a strange fact that a bird of this character should have beencompletely exterminated, even though they were often .sold in the forty-one specimens are known to be preserved at present and nothingis known in regard to their nest
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Labrador Due (ainptorhyiichus labra- This bird, whose range was from Labrador to New Jersey in the winter,has probably been extinct since 1875, when the last authentic capture wasmade. It is a strange fact that a bird of this character should have beencompletely exterminated, even though they were often .sold in the forty-one specimens are known to be preserved at present and nothingis known in regard to their nesting habits or eggs. ,/l r 101 THE BIRD BOOK. 157. StellehsDuck. Poli/siicta stelleri. Range.—Arctic regions in America, chiefly ontlie Aleutian Islands and northwest coast ofAlaska. A very beautiful species eigliteen inches long;head white, washed with greenish on the fore-head and nape; chin, throat, neck, hack, tail andcrissum, black: bnderparts chestnut; wing cov-erts white, the long scapulars black and breeds on tlie rocky coasts and islands ofBering Sea. The six to nine eggs are pale olivegreen in color. Size x Data.—Admir-alty Bay, Alaska, June 22, 1898. Nest on a hum-mock of the tundra, near a small pool, lined withgrass and down. Collector, E. A. Mcllhenny. 158. Spectacled Eider. A?-ctonefta ftscheri. Range.—Coast of Alaska from the Aleutiansto Point Barrow. Stellers Duck Spectacled Eider Pale olive green
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