. A dictionary of birds . another portion of the birdswhich frequented it colonized the outermost islet is not known, for this spot doesnot seem to have been visited by any naturalist since Fabers time. The latest account of this locality and of the deposit of Penguins bonesthereon found is by Mr. Lucas [Rep. NaL-Mtcs. 1887-88, pp. 493-529). EXTERMINA TION fo^ and the coast of Labrador, migrating in winter to the shores of NovaScotia, New Brunswick, New England, and perhaps further south-ward. There is no proof, according to the best-informed Americanornithologists, of a single example be
. A dictionary of birds . another portion of the birdswhich frequented it colonized the outermost islet is not known, for this spot doesnot seem to have been visited by any naturalist since Fabers time. The latest account of this locality and of the deposit of Penguins bonesthereon found is by Mr. Lucas [Rep. NaL-Mtcs. 1887-88, pp. 493-529). EXTERMINA TION fo^ and the coast of Labrador, migrating in winter to the shores of NovaScotia, New Brunswick, New England, and perhaps further south-ward. There is no proof, according to the best-informed Americanornithologists, of a single example being met with for many years pastin any of the markets of the United States, where formerly it wasnot at all uncommon at the proper season, and the last known tothe present writer to have lived was killed by Col. Wedderburn inHalifax harbour in the autumn of 1852.^/^ This bird, the Anaslabradoria of the older ornithologists, was nearly allied to the Eider-Duck, and like that species used to breed on rocky islets, where it. Pied Ddck, Somateria labradoria, Male and Female. ^ It is needless to observe that no one at that time had any notion of itsapproacliing extinction. The skin of this example is in Canon Tristrams collec-tion, its sternum, which was figured by Rowley (Orn. Miscell. pp. 205-223), is inthe Cambridge Museum. Mr. Dutcher [Auk, 1891, pp. 208, 211) reports threespecimens supposed to have been obtained between 1857 and 1861 ; but the in-formation of the former owner of two of them points to an earlier time, and thatrespecting the third is somewhat vague. Still more uncertain are the rumours,though properly printed by him (pp. 214, 215), of exami)les said to have beenobtained in 1871 and 1878, but since lost. If they could be recovered, a mistakewould probably be found to have been made. Modern American authors professtheir inability to explain the extupation of this species. I liave little doubt thatthe cause mentioned in the text and published by me in 1875 is the tr
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