Accepted:

None

Unaccepted:

None

Not yet reviewed (pending historical records and unsubmitted reports):

see account in Palmer 1949, page 115-116.

Note: Extinct. Probably occurred in Maine given it was known by specimen evidence as close as Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, and also wintered to the south of Maine. A specimen reported to have been donated to the Boston Society of Natural History by Caleb Loring, Jr. who usually did his shooting at Scarborough (fide Palmer 1949; see Anonymous 1859), could have been from Maine. Labrador Ducks favored shallow sandy shoals and estuaries; so the mouth of Scarborough Marsh and Pine Point would have provided typical habitat, which is otherwise limited in Maine. Although this specimen has not been seen by the committee, it could be one mentioned and described by Brooks (1912). This specimen was believed to be Loring's bird by Johnson (1913), who wrote: "The Society is further indebted to Mr. W. S. Brooks for his work on the storage collection of skins. In the course of rearranging and identifying these, he found a Labrador Duck, the 44th known specimen, and probably the one given by Caleb Loring in 1858." (see Palmer 1949, 115).

References:

Anonymous. 1859. Donations to the museum: February 3. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 6:359.

Brooks, W. S. 1912. An additional specimen of the Labrador Duck. Auk 29:389-390.

Johnson, C. W. 1913. Abstract of report by the curator, Charles W. Johnson. Boston Society of Natural History, Museum and Library Bulletin no. 22: 1-4.

Palmer, R. S. 1949. Maine Birds. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 102.