VELVET DUCK. 



(Fuligula fusca, Bonap. Synops. No. 335. jinas fusca, Linn. 

 Gmel. Lath, Ind. sp 44. Temm. ii. p. 854. Wilson, viii. p. 

 137. pi. 92. fig. 3. [male.] Oidemia fusca, Fleming. Richard. 

 North. Zool. ii. p. 449. Velvet Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. No. 

 482. La double Macreuse, Buff. Ois. ix. p. 242. Id. PI. Enlura. 

 758. [old male.] Phil. Museum, No. 2658.) 



Sp. Charact. — Speculum white ; feet red, — Male black : a white 

 crescent under the eye. Female blackish-brown. 



The Velvet Duck is common to the northern regions of 

 both continents, where it retires late in the spring to pass 

 the period of reproduction. Like the preceding, they live 

 principally upon the sea and its productions, diving often 

 in broken water for shell-fish and other marine bodies. 

 They breed along the Arctic coasts and around Hudson's 



